Launch The Copra Boats!
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SWIFTLY and silently the electric winches of the motor vessel “Moa moa”. copra trading in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the Western Paci fic, respond to the command to launch the boats, to be towed ashore by the ship’s launch to load copra at express speed while the tide holds. Three hun dred tons of copra will find its way into the “Moamoa's” holds before she com pletes her round of the Group and dis charges into the Company’s storage sheds at Tarawa, where the copra is accumulated to await the periodical loading steamers en route to European markets.