Small Koro Settles In
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N. Hebrides
Prom Our Own Correspondent SANTO. August 20.
LAST of the four ships built by Whippy’s, of Suva, for Messrs, Burns Philp & Co., Ltd., the auxiliary ketch “Koro,” arrived in Santo late in July to take up her duties.
Based on Vila, the 82-ton “Koro” is de signed, in part, to take the place of the mv “Muliama,” which was recently diverted from the New Hebrides run to the Solomons.
Apart from regular inter-island voyages to pick up copra and deliver stores to planters, an important job of the “Koro” will be to meet the ss “Morinda” in Santo and tranship her cargo for delivery throughout the Group, and allow the larger “Morinda” to return to Sydney in the shortest possible time.
Under Captain D. Anderson, the “Koro” is well appointed, and fitted with a 120 HP Crossley engine, and does 11 knots.
Accommodation at present consists of three cabins aft; one for the captain, one for the engineer, and the third, fitted with three bunks, for passengers. It is planned later to strip this third cabin and use it as a trade room, with, it is presumed, accommodation for a super cargo.
Prior to joining BP this year, Captain D. Anderson and Engineer R. Warren, were members of small ferrying crews between Australia and New Guinea.