“Stella Maris” For New
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Hebrides
THE motor vessel Stella Maris, aboi 200 tons, sold recently by the Cathol Mission headquarters at Alexi haven, New Guinea, to Messrs. Bun Philp & Co., Ltd., was delivered : December to her new owners at Po
Vila, New Hebrides. It is understood si will be used in New Hebrides coast work.
Captain Bertie Hall, one of the veten shipmasters of the Southwest Pacif took the Stella Maris to Vila, and M McGavik, who went with him as fir mate, then took over the vessel. Capta Hall went to Sydney for a holiday, ar will later proceed to Lae, where he mi enter the service of New Guinea Indu tries, Ltd. The Stella Maris was used 1 the Mission mostly for maintaining cor munications with mission stations, ai she made frequent runs south to Cain Captain Hall had been in charge of h for about two years.
Mr. P. H. Nightingale, who has bei acting as Fiji Financial Secretary, we on leave in December. His place Acting Financial Secretary has been tak by the Comptroller of Customs, Mr. A.
Smith.