Operation Again
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BCD's No. 5 Dredge In Operation Again
THE considerable task of salvag and repairs to BCD's 2,500-to< No. 5 dredge was completed at Bulc 10, New Guinea, on February 9 whe: normal operations were resumeo The dredge capsized in November 1949, when it was involved in a lane slide of tailings.
Captain J. Fant and his sta: carried out the salvage on behalf a Lloyds. Great difficulties were ex perienced, not only in the divini operations preliminary to righting thi dredge and in the subsequent repairs but also in obtaining the necessar materials from overseas.
Mr. Norman White, mining err gineer of Wau, acted as local repre sentative of the Underwriters ami gave much technical advice am assistance.
The Rev. T. Rees of the City Con gregational Church, Brisbane, claimed recently that coloured missionaries were refused passages on some shipt trading between Australia and thu islands. Australian mission societies he said, were forced to pay thousandl of pounds in air fares for coloured missionaries whom the ships wouh not take.