How To Build A Dinghy
pp. 58-60 · Read in the full issue
T'HE following set of plans, showing A craftsmen how to build a type of dinghy suitable for Islands use, has been kindly supplied to us, for publication, by
Mr. Charles E, Sparrow, A.M.1.N.A., of the Methodist Missionary Society’s Technical Training Institution, Fergusson Island, Eastern Papua.
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(Plans continued overleaf.)
Rev. D. Spiers, of the American Lu theran Church, sailed from Sydney for Madang, New Guinea, by the July Macdhui.
Mr. Edward Rand, who has been Ameri can Consul in Tahiti since April, 1933, left for Panama by the Commisaire Ramel on July 3, en route to Washington. From Panama, Mr. Rand proceeded to the United States by coastal steamer. Dur ing Mr. Rand’s absence Mr. Scudder Mersman, Vice-Consul, will take charge of the American Consulate.
Mr. R. M. Glasson, a well-known miner of New Guinea and one of the original members of the “Big Six” (discoverers of the Morobe goldfield), and Mr. R. S.
Moody, a mining engineer, sailed for
Boram, on the north coast of the New Guinea mainland, by the Macdhui on July 25. They will be joined by Mr. Ray Parer, the famous Australian airman, and will set off for the interior to inves tigate a gold dredging area for New Guinea (North) Development, N.L., whicli was recently formed in Melbourne.
The Bishop-elect of the Southern- Solomon Islands (Most Rev. Dr. J. M.
Aubin, S.M.), who is at present in Sydney, will be consecrated in St. Mary s pro - Cathedral, Wellington, New Zealand, by Archbishop O’Shea, on September 29.