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Wv Polurrian
Oeparted
A FTER much delay and very “X extensive and costly engine repairs allegedly due to tegligence on the voyage from Jngland to Australia, and again bring trials in Sydney Harbour— he newly-formed Bougainville Co., .td.’s, 450-ton motor-vessel Polur ian finally cleared Sydney for tabaul on December 30 (see PIM lovember, page 29), under com mand of Captain (and Senator) toy Kendall.
Captain Kendall, whom many fill remember as skipper of Oscar tondahl’s schooner Induna Star,
of Rabaul, in pre-war days, hopes to remain with the ship until late February, when Parliamentary duties will demand his return to Australia.
The command will then be taken over by the Chief Officer, Mr. H.
Etheridge, who, like the new Chief Engineer H. C. Humphreys, joined the vessel in England. The Master and the Chief Engineer on the voyage from England were paid oft in Sydney.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. L. Hill, now of Nigeria, arrived in Suva recently on a holiday visit to the Colony.
Mr. L. A. Lawlor has returned to Suva after an extended visit to the United Kingdom and South Africa.
tight: The MV Polurrian, new addition to New Guinea coastal fleet. Left: Captain toy Kendall (a Queensland Senator) who acted as master of the ship on the voyage to Rabaul. Captain Kendall’s son, a student, went along as deckhand.