New Schooner For The Tongan Isles

This sleek and handsome vessel is the auxiliary schooner recently acquired by the Free Church of Tonga for maintaining communication between the different stations of the archipelago. She was' built for the British Admiralty and was sold to the Church- for £6,500. In August, she' was lying in Auckland; awaiting the arrival of a crew of 10 Tongans, to take her to Nukualofa. De tails are as follows: — Hull of teak and oak, copper sheathed; length overall, 80 feet; length at waterline, 65 feet; breadth, 13; h.p. Buick petrol engine installed; fuel tanks (2), 1,500 gallons; water tanks, 200 gallons; main mast, 36 feet; new masts, rigging, sails in 19'46; stay-sail schooner rig' lavatories, kitchen, light ing plant, cooking gear, all ship and domestic equipment.