Launch for New Guinea

It was announced on March 6 that the Commonwealth Government proposes to hire an ocean-going- launch for official use m New Guinea. The vessel must have a radius of 1,000 miles and a maximum speed of 20 knots. It is not indicated whether this is to be a patrol vessel or is to take the place of the schooner which recently disappeared off the north coast of New Britain.

A new fast patrol vessel has just arrived in Australia from England. She will be stationed in the Northern Territory.

Sir A. G. Murchison Fletcher, Kt. P K.C.M.G., C.8.E., who has been Governor of Fiji since 1929 and who recently has been appointed Governor of Trinidad and Tobago in succession to Sir Alfred Claud

Hollis, K.C.M.G., C.8.E., proposes to

leave Suva by the Aorangi on May 1 for Canada en route to England.