Small-Ships Wharf Speeds Up
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Turn-Around In Rabaul
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, June 12.
THE work of converting the sunken Japanese ship alongside Rabaul’s pre-war, main wharf into a small ship’s wharf, has been completed.
The wharf was a project of the Direc torate of Shipping and the construction has been carried out by contractors under Department of Works and Housing super vision.
The purpose of this wharf is to expedite the turn-around of inter-island vessels carrying copra. Two 300-tonners can berth alongside, and since it has been in use, a period of six weeks, it has facili tated the handling of copra in Rabaul.
Hitherto inter-island ships could discharge in Rabaul only when there were no over seas ships alongside the pontoon wharf.
Two retiring members of the Fiji PWD sl £ ff were recently entertained at the office of the District Engineer. Suva. The
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E - s - H ayles, has been senior foreman at the Walu Bay joinery shop for 21 years. „ T „ Mr. W. R. Dyer, who was for some years in charge of meteorological services in Fiji, paid a brief visit to the Colony in June. He was engaged, with other New Zealand meteorologists in a tour of in spection of meteorological stations in the South Pacific.