Oil Fuel For Ships
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Installation At Tahiti
From Our Own Corro'-norident.
Papeete, June 20.
T A Compagnie Francaise des Pilos is phates de I’Oceanie celebrated, on May 29, the completion of their oil storage and fueling station at Papeete.
Up to the present, motor vessels in the South Pacific have been compelled to go to Fiji for Diesel oil. Or, if they could not go from the Americas to Fiji with out refueling, supplies were sent in drums to Papeete, in advance of their coming.
The new station at Papeete can supply vessls of any size. The C.F.P.O. instal lation is very modern and efficient with ample storage tanks, pumps and pipe b'nes to the company’s own wharf and to the main wharf of the harbour.
The celebration, at which His Excel lency the Governor and staff were guests of honour, was held at the offices of the company at Papeete. A pavilion gaily decorated with flags had been erected in the grounds, where a banquet was provided for the whole staff of the com pany, including the artisans engaged in the construction of the station.