TRANSPACIFIC TRADE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20703, 29 April 1929, Page 10

TRANSPACIFIC TRADE.

LOS ANGELES TO NEW ZEALAND monthly service arranged. .Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, April 27 Ilia Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company a steamer Golden Cross, the first vessel of the line to be fitted with refrigerated space for the Transpacific trade, arrived to-day. Besides the i JSUiI | cargo of lumber.-ease oil, and general merchandise from Pacific coast porta the Golden Cross brought in her re fngerated space a shipment of 1850 ease-' of Californian oranges and grape fruit, of which 1600 cases are for Auckland i! rom here the vessel is to go to Wellington, Nelson, and Lyttelton to complete discharge and commence loading for thereturn voyage to San Francisco v ij Honolulu. She is to return to Auckland about May 20 to fill up, and arrangements have already been made for her to lift, here a large consignment of beef for the United States. Three other steamers of the ’linc-the Golden West, the Golden Coast, and th“ Golden Cloud—are having refrigerating machinery installed on them, as in the Golden Cross, amidships. Hold No. H will be insulated, and the four vessels will maintain a monthly service between Los Angelos and New Zealand, making Auckland their first port of discharge and their filial loading port.