TRADE WITH THE ISLANDS
REINSTATEMENT OF SERVICE NEW MOTOR SHIP MATUA (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, August 12. After a lapse of over four years the Union Company’s regular Island passenger and cargo service will be revived shortly by the company s new motor ship Matua, which is due from England via Rarotonga to-morrow on her maiden voyage When the Tofua was withdrawn in April, 1932, tlie company’s passenger service to the Islands was abandoned after operating for over 50 years. After being docked for refitting next week the Matua is scheduled to sail for Tonga, Apia, and Suva on Angus. 27, returning to Auckland on September 9, On September 10 she is sche duled to sail for the Cook Islands. A letter of appreciation of the action of the Union Comoany in building the Matua for the Pacific Islands trade has been forwarded by the Chamber of Commerce to Mr N. S. Falla, managing director of the company'.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22958, 13 August 1936, Page 12
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