Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 7

New Coastal Scow for

p. 60 · Read in the full issue

Page 6060

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Prom our Own correspondent

Moresby, Jan. 25

STEAMSHIPS Trading Company at Port Moresby has just added a new 56ft scow to its fleet of coast vessels. This is the Kone built by Bjarne Halvorsen

Limited of Sydney, and it will boost the number of Steamships vessels operating out of Port Moresby to nine. The Company has two more operating in the Samarai region.

The Kone can carry 25 tons of cargo, and will be used on routine coastal trips carrying stores on the outward voyages and mainly copra on the return trips.

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