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Pacific Islands Monthly, 24 November 1936Vol. VII, No. 4

New Ship For Phosphate

pp. 17-18 · Read in the full issue

Trade

PLANS are at present being - completed for the construction of a new vessel for the British Phosphate Commissioners Ltd., the keel of which will be laid down shortly in British yards.

The vessel, which will replace the Triona on the Ocean Island-Australia run, will be either a cargo-carrying steamer or a motor vessel.

Mr. J. W. Hinks, Pacific Islands mining engineer, sailed for Pt. Moresby from Sydney by the November Macdhui.

Lady Murray, wife of the Lieutenant- Governor of Papua, reached Sydney from Pt. Moresby by the November Macdhui.