S.S. Laperouse
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Smaller Steamer for the New Hebrides?
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, July 28.
It is rumoured that, in order to economise, the Messageries Maritime Shipping Co. will replace the Laper ouse, on the Noumea-New Hebrides run, with a smaller steamer.
This would tend to make the voy age round the New Hebrides a good deal less attractive to tourists from Australia; but as the present high fare charged by the shipping company from Sydney has already discouraged tour
Ist traffic, it may not perhaps make such an appreciable difference.
It is considered here that if a rea sonable fare was charged, in Austral ian currency, a number of Australians would make the trip, and, incidentally, increase business activities in Noumea, as well as in the interior of the colony.
Papua’S Gold Yield.
Gold won in Papua during the year 1929-30 was valued at £10,059. Alto gether, 32 white miners were engaged and these were assisted by 356 inden tured labourers. The value of the gold. yield of the Territory since 1888 now totals £1,757,536.