TRADE WITH EAST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22722, 7 May 1937, Page 10

TRADE WITH EAST

NEW VESSEL ARRIVING ROYAL DUTCH LINE INAUGURATION OF SERVICE The opening of now avenues for New Zealand trade in the East will be further advanced by the arrival at Auckland on Monday of the Dutch Royal Packet Navigation Company's motor-ship Maetsuycker. This will be the vessel's maiden voyage, inaugurating the company's South Pacific service and included in the cargo is 1000 tons of sugar which will be discharged at Chelsea. The master of the ship is Captain J. J. Kooper. The Dutch Royal Packet Navigation Company, which is often referred to as the K.P.M. Line, conducts a regular service between Europe and the East Indies, while its two liners, the Nieuw Zealand and the Nieuw Holland, travel regularly from Sydney to the East Indies. Jn the past, ships of the K.P.M. Line have seldom visited the Dominion, but with the establishment of the South Pacific Line there will be a monthly service between New Zealand and Australia and Saigon, Singapore. Java, Papua and New Guinea by the Maetsuycker and the steamer Van Pees.

The Maetsuycker is of about 4000 tons gross register. For the promotion of exoort trade from New Zealand to the East she will be fitted with refrigerated space. The Van Rees is not so equipped, but it is understood that in the near future she also will be fitted with refrigerating plant. The Maetsuycker will carry about 80 saloon passengers and the Van Rees about 50.

"The new line will give the Dominion a direct service to and from the East," said Mr. D. Lammers, Sydney representative for the K.P.M. Line, in an interview yesterday. Mr. Lammers, who is at present in Auckland awaiting the arrival of the Maetsuycker, added that the service would provide a valuable link between two great potential markets and would avoid delay and inconvenience of transhipment at Australian ports.