Mv Ambon Changes Hands

From Our Own Correspondent

Honiara, Feb. 2.

THE 68 ft. MV Ambon has been bought by Messrs. K. H. D. Hay and R. C.

Symes, of Honiara, BSI, and will be used for copra carrying in the Protec torate.

The Ambon was originally built; by Japanese boat-builders pre-war for a syndicate of New Guinea planters. Dur ing the war the vessel was taken over by the RAN and used in NG and Papuan waters as a medical ship in charge of Capt. Radley of the Seventh Day Adven tist Mission. Capt. Radley purchased the Ambon after the war and she has been a Seventh Day Adventist Mission ship until she changed hands recently.

The Ambon arrived at Honiara from Rabaul on January 31 and sailed almost immediately for the Western Solomons with a full load of cargo. She will be extremely useful in the Protectorate, where there is still a considerable short age of interisland shipping.

Professor Thomas Mathews White, who has been appointed first Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Queensland, has been with the Colonial Mines Service in Malaya and Fiji since 1937. There, his work included research on mineral dressing and resources. He drafted mineral legislation in Fiji, the West Pacific, and Malaya, and was asso ciated with such problems as mining health, rehabilitation, and taxation. Pro fessor White was bom in Northcote, Vic toria. He graduated Bachelor of Metal lurgical Engineering at Melbourne University in 1930.