NEW PACIFIC LINERS
BUILDING DEFERRED
HIGH COST OF CONSTRUCTION
Owing, it is understood, to the present high costs of shipbuilding, the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand announces that it was reported to a meeting of the Canadian-Austra-lasian Line principals, Sir Edward Beatty and Mr. N. A. Falla; held in London yesterday, that inquiries made of shipbuilders went .to show that no reduction could, be obtained at the present time on the quotations made earlier for the two new liners which it was proposed to place in the Canadian-Australasian Line's Van-couver-Auckland-Sydney passenger service. Moreover, it was repprted that the principal shipbuilders are at present fully occupied. Consequently it has been necessary again to postpone placing orders for new vessels for the trade : referred to.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 11
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125NEW PACIFIC LINERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 11
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