Search For Oil
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Another Vessel tor P.O.D.
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, May 8.
ON May 4, the motor vessel “Philis” arrived in Port Moresby from Rot terdam via Singapore, Java and Dutch New Guinea ports for the service of Papua Oil Development Co. Ltd.
The vessel, which was in charge of Captain W. Groom, with a first officer and two engineers and a coloured crew, will be engaged on the run between Port Moresby and Daru and other bases of the company, replacing the “Angas”, which will remain at Daru as a depot ship. The “Philis” will leave shortly for Western Papua, where she will be taken over by Captain Main. Captain Groom and the first officer and engineer will then return to Europe.
She is a vessel of 363 tons gross, 106 nett, with length over all of 146 ft. and beam 24 ft., and she has capacity for about 300 tons of cargo.
The Papua Oil Development Co. Ltd., which is carrying on a far-reaching in tensive search for oil in New Guinea, has increased its capital by £lOO,OOO, bringing the total to £300,000.
Mr. J. L. Ormond, of Marau estate, T.N.G., recently married Mrs. E. Slatter at Rabaul.