NG Shipping Difficulties
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Mr. R. L. Bain and Mrs. Bain re :ned to Fiji from the United King m in mid-June. Mr. Bain shortly II leave Fiji to take up a posiiton Secretary to the Government of mga.
If Mr. E. A. Crane, MA, Principal of Lelean Memorial School, Davuilevu, Fiji, resigned in June to become Principal of the Government Col lege, Atele, Tonga. Mr. Crane has been in Fiji since 1946.
Here the Burns Philp motor-vessel Malaita is shown lying uneasily at the wharf Kavieng, New Ireland. What there is of the wharf is new, but only two legs the “U” have been built, and one leg is shorter than the other. This requires [?]e juggling on the part of Master Mariners who are unfortunate enough to have take their ships in there. It is difficult to manoeuvre so that more than one [?]tch at a time can be worked onto the wharf, and when this is accomplished there usually no place for the gangway.