S.I. Timber For Rabaul
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From Our Own Correspondent
Tulagi, Nov. 12.
r TVHE Malaita, on her last trip through -I the group called at Marovo Lagoon, which had not been visited for some time, to pick up a parcel of Solomon Islands timber for Rabaul, New Guinea. The Seventh Day Adventist Mission was re sponsible for the shipment.
Though the timber industry has existed in the group for a quarter of a century or more, the export of sawn timber from Marovo is a new departure. The Vani koro Kauri Timber Co. Pty., Ltd., which has long been established at Vanikoro Island, in the Santa Cruz Group, makes irregular shipments of huge kauri logs to Australia, mostly to Melbourne.