Unusual Surfboat For
pp. 31-32 · Read in the full issue
Nauru
FOR passenger and mail service be tween steamers in the roadstead at Nauru Island and the shore, the British Phosphate Commissioners have under construction at the yards of Messrs.
Codings and Bell, Auckland, a fast 28foot motor-boat of unusual design and construction.
The boat has to negotiate a surf bound gap in the reef and when not in use is to be hoisted in davits near the loading cantilever. To minimise risk of swamping the craft is divided by transverse watertight bulkheads into four compartments, the forward one for the mails, the next for the helmsman, the third for the engine and the after one for about a dozen passengers.
Mr. O. H. Clifford, baker, of Thursday Island, is at present in Sydney on sick leave. He will return to T.I. in June.
Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Woodman, Of New Guinea, drew the first four marbles for the major prizes in the 490th N.S.W. State Lottery, Sydney, on April 1.
Monsieur F. X. Gsell, M.S.C., admin istrator of the Apostolic of Darwin, who was a missionary of the Sacred Heart in Papua between 1900 and 1906, when he was transferred to Bathurst Island, has been appointed Bishop of Darwin.
Mr. Henry Holland, who has served for 28 years as a layman in the Aus tralian Board of Missions’ field in Papua, has been ordained to the ministry. He will be stationed in the Sangara district.