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“Malaita” Makes Good
From Our Own Correspondent.
RABAUL, January 5.
THE new B.P. motor vessel, “Malaita,” arrived in Rabaul on December 15 from Singapore, via Salamaua, and Capt.
“Jazz” Williams reports having experienced a very fine trip out from Europe. A non stop run was made from Aden to Singa pore—a distance of some 3,600 miles.
Another good run was made from Singa pore to Salamaua, where cargo for the goldfields was discharged.
In appearance the “Malaita” is one of the nicest ships that has entered the har bour. Unlike the other B.P. liners, she is painted white, the only similarity with other vessels of the fleet being the checker funnel band, and the übiquitous seven lettered name.
Mr. W. Snellgrove, superintendent engi neer of the company, was a passenger and visited Rabaul again after a lapse of some thirty years. Conditions regarding native labour, he explained, were much worse now than when he was here in the earlier days.
Mr. D. Whitford, of Vanikoro, and the New Hebrides, who has been engaged in the Vanikoro timber industry for some time, arrived in Sydney on furlough dur ing January.