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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28554, 7 April 1958, Page 14

Round the world every 70 hours The mooring lines are cast off. The water astern begins to swirl. / The gap between quay grows J Another a y jy wjji W a particularly noteworthy seen 1 JF ■ But see it in perspective, as part of the over-all'pattern and a very S different picture emerges. This the beginning only one but wk g within the space of a single year the ships that serve New Zealand wjk f make between them no less than 250 or Mir f On each round trip (New Zealand—United Kingdom—New Zealand) the ship covers about 26,000 miles which means that, in the course a year, the ships of New Zealand y Overseas between the Over three million miles— B y That’s equal to sailing from Auckland to the Bluff every day of the year for more than 3 t eight solid years. It’s equal (if you’ve a taste for Science Fiction) to makirfg thirteen J ~ trips from the Earth to the to round the world, g /" at the rate of one journey in every 70 hours right through the year. s > By any the very full costs money the even more £57,000. Today are about £240,000 —over four much. The'cost New Zealand’s shipping service of £30,000,000 annually. is the figure on one the many separate items—labour costs, fuel costs, port dues and so On the other side there is only a single item: the money you pay in freight rates and passenger fares. And these charges are not running at a level of more than four times as much as they were in pre-war years. Everything possible has been—and is being—done to offset the continuing rise in operating costs, with the result that the average of freight rates today is only just over three times as much as it was before the war. Issued in die interests of mutual understanding by NEW ZEALAND OVERSEAS SHIPPING LINES . - SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD. • THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO. LTD. • PORT LINE LIMITED • BLUE STAR LINE LIMITED