Two U.S. Motorships For
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Pacific Trade
TWO motorships, the Silveroak and Silverspruce, have been bought in America by Messrs. Flood Bros., of San Francisco, for the trade between the South Seas and U.S.A.
Built in 1919, they are 333 feet long and of 3,380 tons gross register. They will be renamed the Fijian and Samoan respec tively. Each vessel will lift about 3,500 tons of copra from the Central Pacific Groups each voyage.
M. Georges Ferre, a French journalist who is well-known in Tahiti, New Cale donia, and the New Hebrides, arrived in Papeete by the Makura from San Fran cisco in October.