Motor Vessel "Yunnan"
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To Replace The
"Friderun"
IT was announced in October by Colyer, Watson fNew Guinea) Ltd. that arrangements had been made by them for the motor vessel “Yunnan” (2,812 tons gross and built at Grenock in 1934) to be put on the Hong Kong-New Guinea run in place of the s.s. “Friderun” (now interned).
The “Yunnan” is a larger vessel than the N.D.L. steamer and can carry more cargo. It also has more passenger ac commodation. being fitted with seven two-berth cabins and two single-berth cabins.
The “Yunnan” is one of the China Navigation Co.’s fleet, and at Hong Kong will connect with the Blue Funnel liners trading to Europe and the United Kingdom.
The “Rabaul Times” of October 20 said that the “Yunnan” had already sailed from Hong Kong on her first trip to New Guinea. She travels by way of Saigon, Sandakan, Madang, Salamaua, Rabaul, thence to the Solomon Islands, and on the return trip calls at Lorengau, Sandakan and Hong Kong. The service is expected to be about a seven-weekly one.
Mr. Victor Blanch, planter of Djaul Island, New Guinea, died recently in Kavieng Hospital. Before settling down on his property at Djaul, he served for a considerable time on Burns, Philp and Co.’s inter-island steamer “Maiwara”.