Quarter Million Tons
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Annual Production of Makatea Phosphate
•From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, May 11.
MAKATEA, French Oceania, is produc ing about 250.000 tons of high grade phosphate a year for export to New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere This was stated in Suva on May 8 by Monsieur J. B. Marceron, chairman of directors of the Makatea Phosphate Company, who was one of the passengers in the Trans-Oceanic Airways Sunder land which had alighted at Tau Island Eastern Samoa, because of engine trouble while on the way from Papeete to Apia.
M Marceron, who is on his way back to Paris after a visit of inspection to Makatea, was one of the three Sunder land passengers who travelled from Apia to Suva in the “Matua”—arriving only a few hours before the repaired flying-boat alighted at Laucala Bay.
The other ship passengers were Messrs.
W. Moran and L. Giddmgs, of Sydney.