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Overseas Passenger Ships For Brisbane?
Brisbane may win back this year the visits by major British tourist liners.
Orient Line’s 23,700-ton Orion may call at Brisbane on a Pacific cruise before the end of this year, and one of the P. & O. Co’s “Straths” is a likely caller also.
This would ease Brisbane’s fears that the withdrawal of the P. & O. liners Mooltan and Maloja last year would end the trade in big ships to Brisbane.
The Orient Line withdrew the liner Ormonde from the Brisbane rune in October. 1952, and so far has not announced any replacement.
Big liners to-day must make four trips from Britain to Australia to pay. If they go to Brisbane they could only make three.
But Brisbane has claimed that Queensland has a cargo and passenger right to see the bigger, better ships.
Its port facilities have improved, its river is deeper (because of