“Difference Between Shipping Lines”

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31223, 22 November 1966, Page 12

“Difference Between Shipping Lines”

There is a difference between travelling to Britain in a British vessel and in a Greek vessel, according to a correspondent who wrote to “The Press” regarding a statement published on November 16. The correspondent, “Red Duster Forever,” says he sympathises with Mr A. Thacker, a New Zealander now in England, who found that when he travelled on a Greek liner to England earlier this year, he had hurried stays in port and sailed past one of the advertised ports of call. “Red Duster Forever” says that he feels it necessary to point out to Mr Thacker and readers of “The Press,” the difference in travelling the way Mr Thacker did and by a British vessel. “As one who answered the

call to ‘Go by the Stars’ this year, I had port stays of about 120 hours to the United Kingdom and more than 150 hours on the return voyage, compared with Mr Thacker’s port stay time of about 40 hours,” the correspondent says. “Details of ports visited with stop-over times are as follows:—Rarotonga four hours, Tahiti 23, Acapulco 23, Balboa 20, Curacao nine, Trinidad two, Barbados 22, Lisbon 22, Las Palmas 11, Cape Town 28, Durban 22, Fremantle nine, Melbourne 32 and Sydney 51. You will note that the majority of these calls give a full day and night at each port. “This shows that the ‘tried and trusted’ continue to give a much better service than the ‘Johnny come latelys’,” he said.