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New Ship For New

AUSTRALIAN timber is being used in the construction of a new motorship for the Island trade of W. R. Car penter and Co., Ltd. It is being built at the yards of A. W. Settree and Co., Huskisson, Jervis Bay, southern New South Wales. The vessel is a sister ship to the John Bolton, which was completed early in the year at the same yards and which is now in commission in New Guinea.

Much of the timber for the new ship, which will be completed in April, has been gathered within a few miles of the shipyard. The vessel will be of about 250 tons gross, with a length of 125 feet, a beam of 24 feet, and a draught of 9 feet 6 inches. She will be equipped with a British Diesel engine of 200 horse-power.

This group of well-known residents of Western Samoa was photographed in May, 1933, on Tuanaimato plantation, on the occasion of the visit of the Governor-General of New Zealand (Lord Bledisloe) and Lady Bledisloe. Those in the group are:- From left to right: Captain Godwin, Captain Farebrother, A.D.C., Miss Diana Harris, Messrs. E. Retzlaff, W. H. Gibbs,

R. P. Berking, G. H. Adamson, I. H. Carruthers, A. Mathes, F. Stunzner, K. Meyer, A. M. Gurau; Lady Bledisloe; Messrs.

M. Grapengiesser, F. Jahnke; Lord Bledisloe; Messrs. R. F.

Ott, Meerhum; Mrs. Hart, Mr. R. Wetzell, Brigadier-General H. E. Hart (Administrator of Western Samoa), Messrs. T. W.

Brighouse, A. R. Cobcroft, H. I. Jones, P. L. M. Morgan, Captain Tweedie, A.D.C., Mr. Goetz.