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"Papuan Chief" Goes as Scrap to Japan

THE old “Papuan Chief”, after long years of service on the Papuan Coast, and after being wrecked, salvaged and repaired, was sold recently by Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. to the Japanese as “scrap”, and was removed from Port Moresby.

A Japanese ship, “Tashema Maru”, arrived in Port Moresby on November 9 with cargo, and a spare crew for the “Papuan Chief”, which was transferred to the Japanese flag and named “Kapi Maru”. The latter sailed out of Port Moresby on November 12, but broke down near the reef and anchored ( off Local Island. Repairs were made, and next day she sailed for Samarai and the East.