Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 June 1937Vol. VII, No. 11

To Market Timber From

p. 78 · Read in the full issue

Page 7878

New Guinea

PACIFIC Timbers Pty. Ltd. has been registered “to carry into effect an agreement made between New Guinea Timber Co. Ltd., of the one part, and William George Nosworthy and Alfred Roy Le Messurier, of the other part, John Joseph Johnson, of the first part, Flora Doris Gilmour, of the second part, and the said William George Nosworthy and Alfred Roy Le Messurier.” Capital, £50,000 in £1 shares.

Names subscribed to memorandum: Alfred Wil liam Harold Akehurst, 1 share; Reginald Mervyn Friend, 1 share. The company proposes to fell, log and mill timber in New Guinea and transport it. It is associated with Timber Transport and Storage Co. Pty. Ltd., of South Melbourne.

Mr. W. M. Dupain, manager for Messrs Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua, for 11 years, moved on to take charge of the Cairns branch on June 11.

Many laudatory things were said of him at a farewell dinner at the Papua Club,

Digitised by the National Library of Australia · OCR text via GLAM Workbench · uncorrected OCR, expect errors
A non-commercial reading archive for research and private study. Copyright in Pacific Islands Monthly varies by issue and article; pre-1955 anonymous material is in the public domain in Australia, later material may remain in copyright. Rights holders with concerns about any item can request its removal.