few Vessel for G. & E. Colony
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IHE vessel on which the Fijians are returning home has just been com pleted for the WPHC at Ballina, on ie Richmond River, NSW North Coast.
She has been named Nareau and is an i ft. twin-screw motor vessel—the rgest craft built at Ballina in the past i years.
She was built by Ballina Slipway and igineering Co. and, it is expected, will s used mainly in general administration irk around the Gilbert and Ellice
Islands Colony. She will have a crew of 11, a European chief officer, engineer and skipper.
Nareau appears to have been completed just in time to prevent complete break down of communications in the G and E.
Another colony ship, Margaret, went up on a reef last September and more recently Nimanoa became a total wreck on a reef near Funafuti in the Ellice Group. (See elsewhere this issue).
Mr. L. J. McHugh, who has been manager of the Lautoka branch of the Bank of New South Wales for the past chree years, left in the Matua with Mrs.
McHugh on December 16, for New Zeal and, en route to Australia on transfer.
Mr. McHugh, a popular member of the Lautoka District, will be missed from that community.