New Oil Station in Tahiti
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L.H.W.
New Oil Station In
TAHITI From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, Dec. 5.
THE increasing requirements by pass- -1 - ing motor ships, visiting yachts, the fleet of inter-island vessels and the works at the phosphate island of Makatea have made necessary the establishment of a storage station for fuel oil, suitable for diesel engines, at Papeete.
Hitherto, the islands have been supplied by the clumsy method of sending hundreds of empty steel drums to the Pacific Coast by mail steamer, to be returned, filled, by a freight vessel two or three months later.
Any extraordinary demand diminished supplies on hand to the vanishing point.
Yachts and larger sea-going vessels, planning to visit Tahiti found it prudent to send ahead their own supplies of diesel oil.
The new storage station is in the compound of the Papeete offices of the Compagnie Prancaise des Phosphates de I’Oceanie. Three cargo steel storage tanks, connected by suitable piping with the company’s private wharf, are near completion. Arrangements have been perfected to expand the capacity should necessity warrant.