New B.P. Vessel For Samoa
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ANEW motor vessel to, replace the Burns, Philp inter-island ship “Makoa”, wrecked on a reef at Hull Island in May, 1937, is nearing com pletion at Hong Kong. She will be de livered in Samoa at the end of August.
The “Matafele” will be 110 ft. in length, with a 25i. ft. breadth and 111 ft. depth. Two full diesels, with twin screws, will give her a speed of nine knots. Provision has been made for eight passengers, and she will have cargo space for 120 tons of copra.
It is expected that the “Matafele’' will be in commission at Apia at the end of August when she will take up the run previously maintained by the “Makoa”, i.e., the Tokelaus, Swain’s Is land, Puka Puka, and the Phoenix Group. She will also connect with the Matson liners “Monterey” and “Mari posa” at Pago Pago (American Samoa) . M. Jore, Governor-elect of New Cale donia, sailed from Marseilles for Noumea by the “Ville d’Amiens” on May 16. He is due in New Caledonia on July 1.
Dr. G. H. Vernon, well-known in Thursday Island and Western Papua, has left Daru and gone to Port Glas gow at the eastern end of the Territory where he* has acquired a plantation.