"Matafele" For Fiji, Not
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Samoa
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Apia, Nov. 16.
M.V. “MATAFELE” (Burns Philp S.S.
Co. Ltd.), which was launched at Hong Kong and left for Western Samoa on November 10, is expected here on December 6. She will make only one round trip from Apia and af terwards will be transferred to Suva for the Fiji inter-island traffic.
This news has been received with re gret in Apia. It had been hoped that the “Matafele” would fill a long felt gap in the inter-island passenger trade, par ticularly with American Samoa. The alteration, it is understood, has been made mainly owing to depressed trade conditions in Western Samoa.
Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Limited, Eastern Papua, has declared a dividend of 1/- a share payable on December 17.
The previous dividend (1/- per share) was paid in June.
The auxiliary yawl “Ronda”, com manded by Captain R. Hudson, R.N. (rtd.), reached Auckland, New Zealand, from Fiji at the end of November, in the course of a world cruise.