Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 July 1935Vol. V, No. 12

Patrol Boats for North-West

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

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THE Commonwealth Government pro poses to build two fast motor boats or sloops for patrol work in the seas north ward of Australia. One, to do patrol work in the Timor Sea, will be based at Darwin, North Australia, and the other will be stationed at Rabaul, to patrol the waters around New Guinea, and also to be used for the conveyance of Administration officials.

Orders for the boats have not yet been given, but it is expected that the work will be undertaken at Cockatoo Island.

Sydney.

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