Pago Cannery
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Again Operating
VAN CAMP’S Pago Pago tuna cannery resumed work at the beginning of December follow ing the arrival of the first two vessels of a new Japanese charter fleet.
The second vessel had 40 tons of fish aboard on arrival.
Within five days of resuming, 4,500 cases of tuna were ready for export and work was proceeding at the rate of about 15 tons of fish canned per day.
As elsewhere reported, a Japanese seaman, Takeichi Hasegawa, aged 22, was accidentally killed by a swinging cargo hook. He was buried in a plot of ground donated by Mr. Francis Shimasaki, a local part- Japanese.
Two other fishing vessels have been chartered to replace two lost en route from Japan to Samoa, and the fleet this year consists of the following vessels: Nissho Maru No. 3, Sansei Maru, Zenshu Maru, Shoho Maru, Hakutaka Maru, and Taiyo Maru.