Wrc Profit Unchanged

W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd., disclosed a profit of £115,989 for the year Pii cn e June 30, compared with £115,904 for 1939-40. Unchanged dividend of 10 per cent, requires £77,500, and £90,562 is carried forward against £77,073 brought forward. The company’s United Kingdom-Pacific line of ships, which the British Government requisitioned, lost one of its motor vessels by enemy action during the year. The two vessels pur chased by the company are in service.

Tire air service to New Guinea operated satisfactorily.

Miss Ethel M. Nordman, daughter of Mr Oscar G. Nordman, and one of the brightest and most popular girls of Papeete, is to marry Captain Oscar Schindler Fajardo, of the Mexi can motor-ship “Hidalgo”. Miss Nordman recently left Tahiti for California, where she is to undergo an operation, and the above photo was taken at Manzanillo, Mexico, while she was on her way.

The motor-ship “Hidalgo” was once the bar quentine “Hawaii”, which was built in Dumbar ton, Scotland, 50 years ago. She was in the Australian trade, carrying lumber, after the last war; then she was cut down to a 4-master, two diesel engines were installed, and she was re christened the “Ethel M. Sterling”, and later sold to Mexican interests. The “Hidalgo” is now running copra between French Oceania and Mexico. Another Mexican steamer now in the Tahiti copra trade in the “Marmex”, formerly the Canadian rum-runner “Federal Ship”, pre viously the “Golondrina”, and previous to that the “Aquila”.