New Club Building for Moresby Yachtsmen
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Believed to be an all-time tonnage record, Suva, on December 5, had seven overseas ships totalling 55,741 gross tons in port at the one time.
The vessels were Orcades, Wave Laird, Coral Stone, Lossiebank, Union Power, Stanley Angwin and Le Phogue, and, in addition, other small ships on the local register.
Port Moresby’s new Aquatic Club building which was opened by the Administrator, [?]rigadier D. M. Cleland, on December 12. Beyond the new building is the old Club [?]hich sustained considerable bomb damage during the war. The Club was first [?]ormed in 1923 when it had a few canoes; now it is one of the most popular and [?]ctive clubs in P-NG and has power-boats as well as sailing boats competing in races [?]ach week-end. —Photo by Papuan Prints.