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Papeete
From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, April 11.
THE block of buildings comprising the recently opened Oceanic Market and other establishments promises to become the most important commercial centre in Papeete. It is now being extended to wards the waterfront by the erection of new offices for the Messageries Maritinjes Co. and the Compagnie General Trans atlantique. The Belgian Consulate will also be situated there.
The new offices will be located on the Quai de Commerce between the Union Steam Ship Company and the Societe Com merciale de I’Oceanie, and immediately facing the usual berthing place for pleas ure yachts and schooners.
Mr. M. M. Brodie, manager of the Union Soaps Ltd., and the Pacific Biscuit Co. of Fiji, returned to Suva by the Aorangi early in May.
Rev. H. T. Frere Lane returned to Menapi, Papua, by the Montoro from Sydney on May 6. He is a member of the staff of the New Guinea Mission.
Mr. James Fergusson, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fergusson, of Thursday Is land, married Miss Marie Amies, of Bris bane, in April. Early in May they were spending their honeymoon touring in North Queensland.
Mr. M ason Warner, an American jour nalist, sailed from Sydney for the Solo mon Is. by the May Malaita to gather material for a series of articles for the American press.