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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 9

J. M. Mitchell Retires

p. 27 · Read in the full issue

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E Managing Director of Steam hips Trading Co. Ltd., of Port Moresby, Mr. J, M. Mitchell, ned his position there recently, left Papua for Sydney late in h. ; E. V. Crisp, Chairman of itors, has temporarily resumed office of Managing Director.

Mitchell informed inquirers his reasons for resigning his rtant post were “entirely nal.” , Mitchell, for some years, was tecutive official in the service ulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., in Guinea. He joined Steamships ng Co. as accountant about was promoted to General ger; and, when Mr. Crisp ?d to retire from the ging Directorship after some ious years there, Mr. Mitchell elected as his successor, and led office in 1955. t to Burns Philp, Steamships ng is the largest trading, ng and shipping organisation pua; but its activities do not i beyond Papua.