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Mariposa, after California's Mariposa County, locale of Forty-niners' gold scrambles, was the name given first of three liners ordered by Matson Navigation Co. from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. at Quincy, Mass. Christened with a bottle of water from Sydney Harbor, Australia, terminus of her run from San Francisco, the Mariposa was launched by Mrs. Wallace Alexander, wife of Matson Line's vice president...
...Dole's Hawaiian pineapples direct to destination at $10 a ton, $3.95 less than the route via San Francisco. Since Dole pineapples fill 5,000.000 cases a year (125,000 short tons), 33% of the Island's total, other steamshipmen protested, wished Godspeed to President William P. Roth of Matson Navigation Co. when he set out for Manhattan to chide Mr. Farrell...
...before it was announced, London and New York newspaper offices knew last week that the starboard propeller and part of the shaft of the British liner Tahiti had fallen off, some 500 mi. from the Cook Islands, that the Tahiti was sinking while two U. S. vessels, the Matson liner Ventura and the Shipping Board's Antinous were rushing to the rescue. Reason: first news of the sinking Tahiti came from Suva, a Fiji island just west (from New York) of the International date line (180° east of Greenwich) a spot where the sun rises 14 hr. ahead...
...Inauguration of a non-transfer boat train service from New York to San Francisco to connect with the Hawaii-bound Matson liner Malolo...
...ships of the American Australia Orient Line, plying between San Francisco and Los Angeles and ports in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, China, Japan-sold to a joint subsidiary of the Matson Navigation Co. and the American Hawaiian Steamship...