Adi Rewa To Be Retired

SUVA, September 3.

THE well-known Fiji inter-island ship, Adi Rewa, built at Suva in 1926, has been withdrawn from service by Morris Hedstrom, Ltd. An examination on the slip showed that the extensive repairs needed were not warranted in view of the few years of active life re maining to the vessel.

Skippered by Captain E. Williams, the Adi Rewa has been popular with travel lers for 23 years. Recently she was on the Suva-Levuka-Macuata run, but when she started life there was no highway right round Viti Levu, as there is now, and travellers from Suva to Lautoka, Ba, and Penang, voyaged by sea. To-day a large part of Fiji’s passenger transport is by land, and in the case of Labasa-Suva, by air.

An anonymous Auckland donor has pre sented a £1,600 launch to the New Zea land Methodist Mission for use in Bougainville. This makes the mission’s fleet in the Solomons complete.

The baseball season opened in Rabaul, New Guinea, on August 27. Mr. W. E.

Sansom, Acting District Officer, Rabaul, pitched the first ball after wishing the players a successful season.