S Morinda For Scrap
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HE old Burns Philp steamer Morinda, which maintains a regular passenger and freight vice between Sydney, Norfolk md, the New Hebrides, and niara (Solomon Islands) is due final retirement next year. The vice will be carried on by a more dern vessel.
Tie Morinda has been a feature Western Pacific Islands life for rly 40 years. She was intro ed to the Pacific trade by Bums Ip & Co. in 1913, All her con iporaries—lnduna, Matunga, Ma ta, Marsina, Mindini, Mataram, lusia, Montoro—have been lost or I, long since.
Lomons Timber Industry
[orinda’s last and notable public r ice is the inauguration of a new ber industry between the Solo is and Australia. To meet an itiable demand for timber in tralia a new company has corn iced producing timber in Gua :anal; and the Morinda, in ober, brought a cargo of 300 e logs, to an immediate and itable market in Sydney. This r be the beginning of an impor ; industry for BSI. be only other timber industry SSI is an enterprise working on kauri pine of Vanikoro, which eing cut on a large scale and ped direct to Melbourne. This istry was established before the