N.Z. TRADE WITH MALAYA

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28440, 21 November 1957, Page 18

N.Z. TRADE WITH MALAYA

Refrigerated Vessel To Enter Service (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 20. The first ship with deep-freeze space for the Malaya-New Zealand run will come into service early next year. She is the 4116-ton motor-ship Houtman, owned by Royal Inter Ocean Lines, a Dutch company. The Houtman is scheduled to go into dry dock in January for the installation of refrigerating machinery. Her refrigerated capacity will be 15,000 cubic feet, including a special chamber of 3500 cubic feet for deep-frozen foods. The Houtman will replace her sister ship, the non-refrigerated Roggeveen.

The company’s vessel Van Neck is also on the Malaya-New Zealand run. The ships maintain a six-weekly service, calling at main New Zealand ports.

“Cross” Teddy Boys Javanese teddy boys in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta are as much of a problem as their kind in Britain and New Zealand, according to Professor L. H. Palmier, the new associate professor of Asian studies at Victoria University. Professor Palmier, who is now in Wellington, spent two years in Indonesia when doing research into South-east Asian problems. "A result perhaps of relaxed discipline in Jakarta schools, they roam the poorer quarters in gangs blackmailing and threatening,’’ said Professor Palmier. “The Indonesians call them ‘cross’ boys because they are liable to fly off the handle' at you.”