FOUR NEW LINERS TO BE EQUIPPED

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 6

FOUR NEW LINERS TO BE EQUIPPED

Refrigerated Produce 0. AND 0. STEAMERS TO SERVE SOUTH ISLAND DIRECT WITH AMERICA. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. At an estimated cost of about £50,000 the Oceanic and Oriental navigation line is installing refrigerating machinery in four vessels for the Pasifie coast and New Zealand trade. The local representatives of the line, Messrs Henderson and MaeFarlane Ltd., stated this morning that the equipping of these vessels for carrying refrigerated produce would open up trade between the United States and ports in New Zealand which were not at presont served. In the South Island, especially, the new service would be welcome as Wellington and Auckland were the only ports which had direct refrigerating steamers to America. The O. and 0. steamers would call at Lyttelton and Dunedin to lift South Island produce. The four steamers will adhere to the present time table, leaving Los Angeles on the first of each month and returning via Honolulu to Vancouver, San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles. Golden Cross will be the first of the newly-equipped steamers. Her refrig orating machinery will be installed at San Francisco and she is to leave Los Angeles for New Zealand on April 1.

German Extension in the Far East / - HONGKONG TO NEW GUINEA. Received Thursday, 7 p.m. BERLIN. Jan. 2. It is learned the North German Lloyd steamship company will extend its service in tho Far East from Hongkong to New Guinea. The steamer Bromcrhaven will ply every six weeks between Hongkong, Rabaul, Vitu and Calelo, carrying passengers bound for Europe. There will be no extension of the Hamburg-America line in the far eastern service for the present.