Old "Makambo"

Reported Sold to Japanese

THE old Burns, Philp steamer “Makambo”, known to two genera tions of Pacific Islands people, has been sold to the Japanese.

She had been last in use in the New Hebrides, for inter-island communica tion; and, finally, she was laid up in Port Vila, out of commission. It is reported there that she was sold to a German planter for £lOO, and that he, in turn, sold her to Japanese interests for about £6OO.

The S.S. “Makambo” (1,100 tons), on the beach at Vila, New Hebrides, where she was run ashore at the end of 1935, after nearly 30 years running in the B.P. services.