Too Much Or Too Little

BSI’s Shipping Problems

From Our Own Correspondent

Honiara, Nov. 15.

THE British Solomon Islands seem toe have a feast or a famine where over seas shipping is concerned. A typicall example of this occurred in November, when after weeks without an overseas ship calling, W. R. Carpenter’s motor vessel Lautoka arrived on November 10, the copra vessel Eskbank arrived on the? 12th and the Morinda was due on the 16th.

Kukum wharf, where overseas vessels berth, can now accommodate only one overseas ship, of any size, at a time, and: residents always appreciative of cargo and parcel mail, wonder why it so often hap pens that visits of larger ships from outside the Protectorate coincide, filling the Honiara cargo sheds and causing problems in the handling of cargo.

Mr. Peter Clay, only son of Mrs. E.l Clay of Dover Heights, Sydney, and thK late Mr. J, R. Clay of Port Moresby and Samarai, who was one of the best-knownr businessmen of pre-war Papua, has em barked on what should be a successful! law career. He is now articled to a prom inent Sydney law firm and at the end oft 1950 passed his Final Law with Honours,; was 6th in NSW and won the John: Peden prize. He was born in Moresby) about 21 years ago and came South tffi school when he was 9.