Pacific Islands
pp. 17-18 · Read in the full issue
New Refrigerator Unit for Pacific Islands
HITHERTO most non-mechanical refrigerators for use in the Pacific Islands, where no elec tricity is available, have been produced in the flat chest type with a Hft-up lid. Mr. J. W.
Long, consulting engineer and refrigerating sur veyor, of Sydney, and an expert in absorption type systems, has now announced the production of the “Evercold” Absorption Refrigerator, which has been designed to be equipped into the more con ventional vertical cabinet, so that Islands users may now have a prototype of the electric re frigerator.
The “Evercold” is kerosene-operated, using a specially designed lamp. It is noiseless and vibrationless and has no moving parts. Another feature is that no running water is required for cooling purposes. In design this new absorption unit is extremely simple; the boiler being located in the bottom compartment of the cabinet and the evaporator unit and ice-making trays are at tached to the top of the cabinet interior, and there is a surprising minimum of valves, pipes, or control gadgets.
South Seas distributors for this new type of refrigerator unit are Messrs. Simplex Baltic Machinery Co., Ltd., 608-614 Harris St., Sydney whose announcement is published in this issue***
Mr. W. R. Humphries, formerly Resi dent Magistrate of the Delta Division, Papua, who has been relieving Mr. C. T.
Wurth as R.M. in the Central Division, left Port Moresby in December on three months’ leave.
Mr. A. J. Marshall, an Australian an thropologist, will leave Sydney this month for Boram, near Wewak, on the North Coast of the N.G. mainland, to carry out scientific investigations in the district.