Upsets Timetables
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Mangola’S Stranding
WHEN the small Burns Philp freighter Mangola, 2,000 tons, ran on to Karkar Island, off the north coast of New Guinea, in a thick haze on February 8, the accident threw all the Burns Philp timetables out of gear.
Craft from all around—the Bulolo, on her regular run; the Malaita, just leaving Rabaul for Samarai, a naval vessel from Manus—gathered near the Mangola within a couple of days; she got off on February 15.
The Bulolo will be delayed in beginning her March schedule.
The Malaita’s schedule already has been altered. Instead of leav ing on February 27, she will depart at least a week later and, to pick up lost time, she will omit the scheduled calls at Lord Howe.
Norfolk and New Hebrides, and proceed directly to the Solomons.