Few Ships
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N. Guinea Goldfield Has a Grievance
From Our Own Correspondent WAU, Nov. 20.
ITIOR some considerable time the ship £ ping facilities to and from Sala maua, the port of this most import ant part of New Guinea, have been bad, and now they assume the proportions of being appalling.
With one more ship removed from this run-transferred to other duty—the mainland finds itself now with the pros pect of one ship every eight weeks or thereabouts.
It has been suggested many times that the E. & A. ships might very well be diverted to Salamaua, and now con sideration of this suggestion becomes imperative.
The capital (Rabaul) is in no way inconvenienced in the matter of ship ping; and, apparently, no consideration is given to those who, especially in war time, perform the Territory’s most use ful function—namely, produce the bulk of the Territory’s revenue.