Islands Services
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Shipping Tenders Invited
TENDERS for the Pacific Islands ser vices were invited in the Common wealth Government’s Gazette in April, to close on August 31. The present services are conducted by Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. under an extension of the contract which expired two years ago.
The following services are involved: Papua: One sailing a month by a 12-knot steamer, from Sydney by way of Brisbane, to Port Moresby, Samarai, and other Papuan ports, returning to Brisbane and Sydney.
New Guinea: One sailing every five weeks from Sydney by Brisbane, Port Moresby, and Samarai to Salamaua and Rabaul, returning to Sydney; or alternatively, sailing every two and a half weeks, or every four and a half weeks, or every two weeks. A 12-knot vessel is stipulated.
British Solomon Islands: One sailing every six weeks. A 12-knot steamer.
Nonfolk Island and New Hebrides: One sailing by a 12-knot steamer every six weeks, with partial alternative sailings by Lord Howe Island.
New Hebrides inter-island service, connecting at Vila with the service from Sydney.
This tender provides for a five years contract in each case, and lays down conditions for the carriage of mails and the development of the islands. . - Mrs. W. V. Quinn, wife of the manager of the Pacific Aerial Transport Company at Wau, New Guinea, paid a brief visit to Australia in April. She came South by the Macdhui, arriving on April 8, and sailed again for the Territory by the same vessel a week later, in company with her sister Miss M. Cain, of Eliza beth Bay, Sydney. Mrs. Quinn, who be lieves that “life at Wau is becoming too civilised”, has lived in New Guinea for eight years.