DIRECT SHIPMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1921, Page 4

DIRECT SHIPMENTS.

ENGLAND TO NEW PLYMOUTH.

A MONTHLY SERVICE.

ARRANGED BY FEDERAL LINE.

A. direct monthly service betweei west coast of England ports and Nen Plymouth has been arranged by the Federal Line. The first steamer to conn here in the new service will be the Doi* set, which will sail from Home on Juni 25.

At present the Federal Line steamers with cargo from England call at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin, and the change will simply involve the addition of New Plymouth to ths ports of call. The advice received in New Plymouth yesterday was only the brief telegraphic intimation, and no particulars are available as to the Homs ports at which the steamers will load Bristol and Avonmouth are two of the principal west coast ports. The steamers which are employed in -the service are well known in New Zealand and range from 7000 to 8000 tons. The Suffolk, a vessel of 8838 tons, which is due at New Plymouth about the end of this month, is a Federal steamer, but she is coming to load and does not form a link in the new service.

Captain Waller (the harbormaster)< whose faith in the port is boundless, was gratified at the news of the coming of further liners to New “It is particularly appropriate,” he said, “that the principal ports on the west coast of England should have a direct service with the principal port of the west coast of New Zealand.”