Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1955Vol. XXV, No. 7

Samarai Gets First

p. 158 · Read in the full issue

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Harbourmaster

THE former manager of the P-1 Shipping Service, Captain J.

Evans, joined the Administ tion of Papua-New Guinea in Jar ary. He will go to Samarai as 1 area’s first harbour-master.

Captain Evans spent seve months at a radar course in El land before joining the Admin tration. He was awarded the M! in the New Year honours list his work with the Shipping Serv in the Territory when his he£ quarters were Rabaul.

His main job then was to disp< of the Administration’s smallsh fleet to private enterprise. In t he was so successful he sold hims out of a job within a couple of yea

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