New Ketch tor B.N.G. Company
pp. 26-28 · Read in the full issue
A FIFTY-TWO foot auxiliary ketch, the “Nu Ginco”, has just been com pleted in the yards of G. Beattie, Bal main (Sydney), for the British New Guinea Development Company, Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua. A crew to man the new boat arrived in Sydney by the “Macdhui” on July 22, and it is expected that the “Nu Ginco” will depart for Port Moresby late this month.
Hon. R. L. Claa-k, M.L.C., head of the well-known Rabaul contracting firm of Bay Loo Co., Ltd., paid a short visit to Papua by air at the end of July.
Dr. Edward Kidson, 0.8. E.. M.A., D.Sc., F.lnst.P., Director of the Meteorological Services in New Zealand, who died re cently in Wellington at the age of 57, was well-known in Central Pacific. He convened in 1937 the successful South west Pacific Weather Conference, of which he was elected president.
Mr. George Ord, of Witu. married Miss Joan Elliott, of Yass, N.S.W., at St.
George’s Church, Rabaul, New Guinea, on July 12.
Pastor A. G. Stewart, vice-president of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Board, returned to Sydney at the end of July after a visit to the Solomon Islands.