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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 10

'Changchow’

p. 111 · Read in the full issue

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Changchow (registered in Hong kong) which has been under charter, together with her sister ship Chungking, to Messageries Maritimes, on the France-Panama- Sydney run for some years, has now been purchased by the chart erers and renamed Le Resurgent.

She will be retained on the run, to gether with the new vessels Cale donien and Tahitien.

Tahitien was to clear Marseilles on her maiden voyage to the French Pacific Territories and Sydney May 4. Changchow, under her new name, sails June 15.

Miss Ethel Nordman, of Tahiti, represented Tahiti in song and

dance at Tahitien’s official send-off in Marseilles.

H The Most Rev. Übald Lehman.

DD. CSSCC, Vicar Apostolic of the Catholic church in the Cook Islands, travelled to New Zealand in April per Maui Pomare, en route to Europe, on two months’ leave.

He was accompanied by the Rev.

Fr. W. Beekman, of Aitutaki.