SHIPPING SERVICE TO GERMANY
CONNECTION TO START NEXT MONTH (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 27. The first regular connection between New Zealand and Germany and the Continent since before the war will be inaugurated next month when the Hamburg-Amerika steamer Naumburg reaches Auckland to load for Hamburg and other Continental ports. The Naumburg will be the first ship in the direct cargo service to Germany conducted jointly by Hamburg-Amerika and North German Lloyd, details of which were announced in August.
Now at Dunedin completing discharge of a cargo from Texas, the Naumburg will leave on Wednesday for Port Pirie, South. Australia. She will return to New Zealand to serve the first wool sales, reaching Auckland from Australia late next month. The Naumburg will continue loading wool and general cargo at Napier and Wellington and will clear Wellington for Hamburg about the Middle of December.
The next ship to load for Germany will be the North German Lloyd steamer Gega, now en route to Auckland from New Orleans.
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Southland Times, Issue 23651, 28 October 1938, Page 6
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