Weight Must Tell!

HHE Melanesian Mission in the I Western Pacific has protested I against the naming of the new law Savili 20,000 tons liner puthern Cross, because that name as been used for Mission vessels r the best part of a century.

Archbishop Owen, Primate of New kaland, lodged the protest with the

bipany mid-July.

Shaw Savili noted the protest, but fleeted it, pointing out that since 155 many other vessels had carried le same name as well as those the Mission. The name had kver been reserved for Mission Issels. Furthermore, Mission fssels were registered as yachts id not as trading vessels and ere therefore not on the same gister as the new liner.

All other considerations apart, ie Mission protest seems to have sen made too late. The Queen had iproved the name of the new liner; id she also agreed to perform the unching ceremony.