Equipment Lost
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Valuable Road Building
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, November 4.
A BARGE owned by the Union Steam ship Company and carrying building equipment and materials for con struction work on the south coast of Upolu, West Samoa, was sunk off the coast on November 1. It was being towed by a motor launch.
A bull-dozer, stone-crusher, new motor truck, cement and dynamite were lost when the barge sank.
Over one million passengers used Suva and Nausori bus services in the 6 months ending December 31, 1947. Bus travel in Fiji is increasing and existing services will have to be extended in the near future.