Waterfront
p. 42 · Read in the full issue
Busy Scenes On Suva
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, January 21.
THE year opened amidst activity in the port of Suva. Ships seemed to be continually coming and going, so that the wharf was a scene of much activity.
The first vessel in the new year was the American mail steamer Sierra, southward bound, followed a couple of days later by its opposite number, the Ventura, going north. The King John, a British motor vessel, arrived and loaded sugar under charter for the United Kingdom. A couple of days later the Tolken came in to take on copra, whilst the Waikawa took sugar to Vancouver. The Karamea arrived with an inward cargo of general mer chandise from the United Kingdom, and the Tofua took a full load of bananas to New Zealand.
Yachting interests were represented by the Iolanda. belonging to Mrs. Moses Taylor, of New York, which spent a few days here, en route to Europe. She was an interesting vessel of really large size, with a party of over a dozen pas sengers. Although her owner is an American the ship is registered in Southampton and is manned by an entirely English crew.