PACIFIC TRADE.
NEW SHIPS BUILDING.
AMERICAN COMPANY'S PLANS
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION BY ELECTRIC roUSGBAPH-COrnUGHT.)
(Received . September sth, ,10.10 p.m.)
' SAN FRANCISCO, September 5. Three liners instead of two will comprise the new fleet of the Matron Navigation Company of Australia in the South Seas. They will run from San Francisco. The company confirms the reports that the J3ethlehem Corporation is building three passenger freight liners, each costing £1,'00,000, foi this service. Two are already . being l ' l The third will be 672 feet long and lavishly appointed. : This-will be the first bid 111 an attempt to divert traffic from Australia and the South Sea Islands from Vancouver to Sun Fraiiciscp.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 15
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