T.I. Shipyard.
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Rush of Work.
From Our Own Correspondent
Thursday Is., March 25.
THE Port Kennedy boatslips are kept busy, and it is encouraging to see this recently-established enterprise receiving good support.
The engineering section is equipped with up-to-date machinery (on some of which the duty ran into a stiff figure), and both in this and the ship-building yards good work is turned out, there being a fully-competent white staff.
The first boat slips in Thursday Island were European, then later these had to give way to the Japanese slips; now a turn of the tide has brought us back to European builders again.
The Suva ketch, “Seafarer,” which sailed recently from Fiji to Auckland, New Zealand, returned to Suva on March 11. The return voyage occupied 16 days.
The new “Lilac” theatre at Suva, Fiji, was officially opened by the Acting Gov ernor of the Colony on March 2. The of ficial party included the Hon. A. W.
Seymour (Acting Governor), Mrs. Sey mour, Major C. B. Joske, A.D.C. to the Governor; Mr. B. H. Marks, the Deputy Mayor of Suva; Mr. E. H. Griffiths, managing director of the theatre, and the manager, Mr. J. Grand.