Two Steamers

Carpenters Buy

THE head of W. R. Carpenter & Co.

Ltd., Sir Walter Carpenter, will return to Sydney from U.S.A. on August 17.

While abroad, Sir Walter completed the purchase, from American interests, for use in Pacific freighting, of the steamers “Admiral Day” and “Admiral Chase”, both of 5,000 tons, and they will arrive in Sydney shortly, to enter the service of the firm. They will be regis tered at Port Moresby or Samarai. They have no passenger accommodation.

This is important news for the Paci fic communities. If a market can be found in U.S.A. or Mexico for our copra, these two steamers will be able to lift 8,000 to 10,000 tons of it every three or four months.

When war broke out, the Carpenter Line comprised three vessels —“Suva”, “Salamaua” and “Rabaul”—and, as they had been registered in Suva, they passed automatically from Carpenter & Co. to British Department of Shipping control.