[?]-Ng’S Unsuitable Little
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Ships
THE Australian Government last year showed a loss of £BB,OOO on the score or more of little lips which it owns and operates in ipua-New Guinea, and this year iticipates a loss of £50,000. Senator oy Kendall, who took a 350-tons eighter, the Palurrian, to New uinea, in December, and captained r there for two months, gave these ;ures on his return.
The Senator said the Government ips were generally unsuitable for lands work. Suitable private ips could operate profitably.
Because of slow cargo clearing and rn-around of ships, one Bougain lle planter was in the ridiculous isition of enjoying an overdraft his bank of £BOO, while no less an £30,000 worth of copra, which ‘ could not ship, had accumulated l his plantation.