Vanikoro Timber-Getters
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MR and MRS. S. S. BOYE left by the December “Morinda” on their return to Vanikoro Island (South ern Solomons). Mr. Boye is the manager of the Vanikoro Timber Company, which has rights over ,'all the kauri timber stands on Vanikoro.
The Company has purchased the “Erina II,” the diesel-engined craft of 90 tons, and about 86 feet long, which formerly ran between Queensland Ports and the Barrier Reef. The “Erina II,” carrying a crew and two passengers (employees of the Company) will leave Brisbane in January; will rendezvous with Mr. and Mrs. Boye at Santo (New Hebrides): and will take them from there to Vanikoro.
The “Erina II” will be used at Vanikoro, in the service of the Company, and should be of great help to the staff there, which formerly suffered from isolation.
Kauri timber always was valuable; but the stands of kauri which are scattered along the line from the north of New Zealand right up through New Caledonia into the New Hebrides and the Solomons, are now probably worth three limes what they were in 1939.