Another Ship For
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Caledonia
Hebrides Trade
11THEN El Retiro arrived in W Sydney from Noumea on December 13 with a cargo of deer hides and cocoa beans, Captain Emile Savoie said he would take delivery of another NZ coastal veteran—the 600-ton Margaret-W— -next March.
Captain Savoie may sell his present ship, El Retiro on taking over Margaret-W.
El Retiro has done excellent work on the Vila-Santo-Noumea- Auckland-Sydney run during her
year under the French flag, but she it too small for the long runs involved.
Captain Savoie reports that Vila Star, another former NZ coaster, which caused a stir in the Western Pacific in October by calling out Air-Sea Rescue on her delivery voyage to Vila, will shortly be on the Noumea-Sydney run.
The students of the Sacred Heart Commercial School, Rabaul, had outstanding success in recent ex aminations held by the Queensland Shorthand - Writers’ and Book keepers’ Association. All students from Rabaul passed and Felix Seeto gained the Association’s prize for second highest marks in grade II Bookkeeping.