Fiji
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Busy Suva Harbour
Much Shipping Activity In Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent.
Suva, Feb. 4.
MORE and more Suva harbour is com ing into its own as the Metropolis of the Pacific. There are, of course, the regular four-weekly mail steamers of the Union S.S. Co. and the Matson Line, which means that four palatial liners call at Suva during every four weeks.
However, it is the good old tramp steamer which really brings in the mer chandise and takes away the produce.
On January 30 no less than five tramp steamers were in port—the Boren from Singapore loading copra for Europe; the Waipahi loading bananas for New Zeal and; the Beulah, having discharged fuel oils, about to sail tor Rotuma and the Gilbert Is. to load copra for Mexico; the Carriso and the Golden Cloud from the Pacific coast of America, via ports, with timber; whilst the following day the C.S.R. Co.’s Fiona was due to sail for Sydney, after having discharged supplies for the sugar mills.