Why Boats Are Not Built
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In Some Islands
Letter to the Editor YOU ask, in one of your issues, whyv handy boats and launches are notch built in Papua and New Guinea..
T 'ms' 6 son fs°°a d qullffled boat-builder-lvea was taught by a good man in Brisbane..
He S has constructed two 22£. ft. and another 30 ft. tong. But he can not get materials or paint. „ *r The stores can supply copper, andb nails’ but a 16 h.p. diesel engine, ordered!: last October, has not yet arrived, despites all the agent’s promises. A magneto *o posted in Brisbane last December. arnvedb at Rossel Island on June 28. Pit ordered two years ago came to hand recently. Tillers have gone astray.
Inability to get supplies or depend upom service makes boat-building here a heart breaking job.
I am, etc.,
D. H. Osborne.
Rossel Island.