First "Call-Up"
pp. 23-24 · Read in the full issue
French Soldiers Leave N. Hebrides
THE first batch of French conscripts were called up in the New Hebrides immediately war was declared, and they departed a few days later. No more men will be called up in the New Heb rides until adequate arrangements have been made to ensure that plantations, etc., will be properly worked and control led during the war.
Mr. Clifford Ahrens, B.Sc. Agr., who has been engaged in work for the Methodist Mission at the Navuso Agri cultural School, Fiji, returned to Austra lia recently. He has suffered from ill health some some time.
Mr. Cameron has been appointed sec retary of the Government Hospital, Apia, Samoa.
Rabaul Electricity, Ltd., reports net profit of £2,576 for the year to June 30 last, compared with £2,250 for 1937-38.
Interim dividend of 6 per cent, was sup plemented by final payment of 5 per cent., the total of 11 per cent, for the year requiring £2,429. In the previous year, the total distribution was 9?. per cent.
The 52 ft. auxiliary ketch “Nuginco”, built in Sydney for the British New Guinea Development Co., Ltd., Papua, ar rived in Port Moresby recently after a voyage of 11% days, during which she averaged 7i knots under adverse weather conditions. Powered with a 66 h.p. Kelvin diesel engine, she has a beam of 16 ft., and her loaded draught is 5 ft. 6 ins.
Her cargo capacity is 350 bags of copra, and there is accommodation for a small number of passengers.