Carpenter Vessels to Call at Suva
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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, April 23.
A N INTERESTING announcement in connection with the entry of Messrs.
W. R, Carpenter and Co. into Fiji through Messrs. Brown and Joske Ltd., made the other day, when the firm announced that the W.R.C. vessel Salamaua would arrive in Suva in a few days’ time.
She will load copra, and, it is under stood, then proceed to England via New Guinea. The announcement declared that this would probably mean the institution of a regular service between Fiji and England.
This is of considerable interest to the Colony, as at present most copra is shipped overseas in foreign vessels, Nor wegians and Swedes. These foreign ships also pick up a number of passengers, mostly civil servants going on long leave to Eng land. It is pleasing to know that in the near future they may travel in British vessels, which have a good name* for passenger carrying.
Rev. A. Stanley Jones, L.Th., who re cently was accepted by the Methodist Mission Society for work at Kabakada, New Britain, sailed from Sydney for Rabaul by the April Macdhui.
Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Bock, with their two children, sailed from Melbourne for Fiji by the Mariposa on April 25. Mr.
Bock has been appointed by the Method ist Missionary Society to the Lau cir cuit.