Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts
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s Month's News of—
Sutch Ship Slipped In
Madang
le Dutch New Guinea Govern t motor-vessel, Hans-Fuhri, of tons, arrived in Madang, NG, lay 10 for slipping, general sur and overhaul. lis vessel is used as a training [as well as a supply ship for srnment stations. She also has bird job—lighthouse tending. ;ain E. G. de Boer is her skipper a DNG Government Shipping Official, Mr. Schulze, was in ang to keep an eye on finances, bile the ship was in Madang, i coastal skippers were in bst e d in learning something t conditions on the other sid-e le border. They were surprised ind that a native seaman in r receives a minimum of £2O month. A bosun on an Aus m NG coastal ship gets about lus possibly £7 per month over wever, as the cost of living is t three times higher in DNG in the Australian territory, the
NG native seaman is still much better off than his cousin in the Dutch Territory.
Just before Hans-Fuhri went on the slip, BP’s 300 tons, wooden motor-vessel Kulu came off and left soon afterwards, under the com mand of Captain Jim Ritchie, for Rabaul, via Witu.
With Compliments—Two ‘
Years Late
Things move slowly in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. Early in 1955, when the last edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book was in course of revision, we sent questionnaires to all Pacific Islands governments seeking data about ports. One of these circulars went to the G and E Colony in respect of Tarawa (Betio) and Funafuti.
It reached us again this month, duly completed, and, attached, this formal little note, dated March 20, 1957 —getting on for two years after the questionnaire went out; The Secretary of Government, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony,
'presents his compliments to the Publishers, Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., and has the hopour to return herewith two marine questionnaire forms, in respect of the Ports of Betio, Tarawa Islands, and Funafuti, Ellice Islands, duly completed.
The forms now look as though they have been through many vicissitudes —the marks of many rusted slide-on paper clips adorn them and they appear as though they have been watered by someone’s salt tears.
Unfortunately, the edition of the
Year Book for which they we tended was published last without, of course, the data G & E ports.
However, in case anyone terested, here is a summary information now supplied: BETIO; A port of entry control of Marine Superinte Radios should be addressed “M Tarawa, and a pilot is avail® request by radio. Entrance the lagoon is marked by be and lighted buoys, but entra by day only. There are no and there is four to seven fa depth of water at the ancho Well water and a small amoc rain water is available also ss amount of oil fuel.
FUNAFUTI; A port of entt port authority except District ♦ Entrance marked by beacoi pilot and stated that pilot un sary. No wharf but small co; jetty near Government Statior from 4 ft to 8 ft of water. De water at anchorage 50 yard! shore, 10-20 ft, with deepen further out. Limited quant water and diesel oil av\ Lagoon safe throughout yeaf
"Fauabu Twomey", the first of the vessels supplied to SW Pacific Missions Lepers' Trust Board of NZ. She was in New Zealand on April 17 by the of Island Territories, Mr. MacDonald PIM, page 59).
Damage In Marquesas
jcording to private advice re ;d in Auckland, the seismic wave Iting from a severe earthquake he Aleutian Islands in the far ;h Pacific on March 9, caused ; damage in the Marquesas, r. Henry Lie, writing to a friend rahiti, reports that the copra :s at his Paumau Bay property, liva Oa, were swept away, r. Lie’s property suffered con •able damage in an identical hi nt several years ago. It is able that other properties in the juesas also again suffered dam-
Exodus For Tahiti
flowing the successful Bastille le to Papeete last July by the itonga ketch Taveuni, the owner le new rival vessel Tiare Maori announced a similar cruise, ng Rarotonga July 9 and re ing July 22. There is also a bility that MV Melva may make nilar cruise. janwhile Taveuni and the same ;r’s Inspire cleared Rarotonga Papeete April 21, with fruit >es and for refit there. . Brown and his wife travelled tie of the vessels and arrived in ete on April 28. t for years have so many small connections between the Cooks Tahiti been offering over so ; a period.
Anything Goes In The
Hebrides
A New Hebrides resident, writing to report to us two shipwrecks amongst the local fleet there, re marks that although in the Hebrides it is necessary to have a licence to 1 drive a car, and to have that vehicle inspected at intervals, there are
apparently no laws controlling the conduct of the local shipping fleet.
He says that there is no Maritime Court of Inquiry; no laws to pre vent an unseaworthy vessel putting to set; no regulations concerning the capabilities of skippers; and that it is not even necessary to inform the authorities if a shipwreck occurs. (Over)
Personal
ptain G. Baxter is at present in land of the New Guinea-Aus t Line vessel Shansi, while the ar master, Captain W. Bunney, patient in the Royal North ; Hospital, Sydney.
Loss Of Makaro And
Adigaetane
» 20 tons New Hebridean vessel \ro dragged her anchor and up on a reef at Retek, on the coast of Malekula at the end irch. She became a total loss. 5 was no loss of life, month later the Burns Philp
ier Adigaetane was run up on on a voyage between Lugan- Santo) and Hog Harbour. No \ of this incident are avail vessel was towed across from in November, 1955, by the and shortly after arrival n Vila harbour. She was re l and has since been trading i the group. her last voyage, the weather ood, and the distance to be only about 25 miles. attempt was made to tow her i reef with a launch but this Cargo, mast and engine were 3d from her before rough seas ed her. We understand that is been declared a total loss.
Vita Will Sail Again
;vuka correspondent says that ; wide of the mark when we April PIM, p. 177), that noth is being done to make Joyita thy again.
We have now been informed that work has been proceeding on her since she was beached although it was some time before she could be raised and the list she had when beached, righted. She now is in a good position, and Mr. Alsace Lorraine Miller, Levuka boat-builder, has a gang of six men on the job.
To enable the gang to get at her, a 40-ft stage has been erected from the sea-wall to the ship which is now floating upright. In early May, the new keel had been fitted and the stern post was in position.
Damaged bows have been repaired and at time of writing, new timbers were going into the damaged star
board side. She should have been ready to have her engines re installed by the end of May. She will later go to Suva for finishing touches.
All work done on her so far has been done by hand. Mr. Miller, who has been a boa t-builder all his life, says that repairing Joyita is the biggest job he has ever tackled.
Joyita And
Macuata
Inquiries
Courts of In quiry sitting in
The bamboo raft "Tahiti Nui" taken after she sailed from Papeete in November, 1956. (See story page 103).
Suva early in May took stern action against a Master and a Mate over the standings of the Joyita and the Macuata.
The master of the Joyita . David Leonard Elliott, had his Master’s certificate cancelled; and Mikaele Gukibau, mate of the Macuata , had his certificate and sailing licence cancelled. The court ordered, how ever, in the case of Elliott, that its ruling should in no way affect Elliott’s competency as a Mate.
The master of the Macuata, Apolisi Qata, was also disciplined.
His certificate was suspended for three months.
The Macuata stranded on a patch of coral six miles west of Moturiki on January 4, and was seriously damaged. Four days later the Joyita went aground on the notorious Horseshoe Reef in the Koro Sea.
She suffered considerable damage, and was later towed to Nasova, near Levuka.
The court found that the cause of the Joyita stranding was because Elliott was incompetent in his handling and general navigation of the vessel. The ship stranded be cause Elliott did not ascertain his position from Koro Light by taking four point bearings. When the ship struck, Elliott did not know his position.
Macuata stranded because Mikaele took her on the wrong side of a beacon. The mate was incompetent
in his handling and general naviga tion of the vessel, and the damage caused by his wrongful act, and also the wrongful act of the master in not giving proper orders, the court found.
But Apolisi was not incompetent in his handling of the Macuata.
1957 Conditions For Jl
Pearlers
Japanese pearlers will operr North Australian waters agaii season—just commencing. B! order to conserve pearl-shej sources, two areas are being to all pearling and a limit t
tity that can be taken has been 5d to two other areas. 5 conditions under which the lese operate off the Australian were agreed upon by the Gov ents of Australia and Japan in -pending a decision of the In tional Court of Justice on i’s challenge to the validity of alia’s claim to the “continental far as we know, the Courts on on the matter is just as w ay as ever.
V Returns To Norbryn
; officers and crew of the ■yn returned to the ship on 10. ly had been living ashore since 1, when the ship was towed Suva Harbour by some of the y’s smallships after a series ishaps and a nine-days’ tow. , April, p. 78). ; agents for the Norbryn in said that the ship would be alongside King’s Wharf after s to her engine were completed.
May 17, the vessel was “dressed” lebrate the 143rd anniversary Constitution of the Norwegian ment. The officers and crew ated with a small party on hiyn is expected to sail from about the middle of June.
Jeer Life-Raft Proves
Worth
nd shipowners should find or thought in a recent British try of Transport announce that no lives were lost during in British fishing-vessel
disasters. The introduction of the self-inflating life raft had saved 57 lives in the period.
In 1955, trawlers equipped with standard rigid lifeboats lost 53 men.
The report says that the rubber raft has convincingly proved its worth for this type of service.
Wanted—A Central
Engineering School
One of the most urgent needs of South Pacific inter-island shipping is a supply of reasonably com petent native engineers. Limited apprenticeship facilities exist in Suva, Papeete, Noumea, and in New Guinea but demand far exceeds supply, especially in other areas
where vessels are manned largely by handymen with no training what ever.
One South Pacific Commission project might well be the establish ment of a Central Engineering School where elementary training in the operation and maintenance of marine diesels could be given—say, a six months’ practical course.
Cat With Price On Its Head
Cook Islanders are not considered aliens in New Zealand —but Cook Island cats apparently are, as Cap tain Hugh Williams found when he brought his 243-ton trader Melva south to Auckland for refit recently.
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[?]tgan" in Mori's Dock, Sydney, some ago. (See story page 131).
The ship’s cat, devoid of any notable pedigree, suddenly became orth £5O when spotted by Depart ment of Agriculture officials on arrival as a possible source of im ported animal diseases.
As a result, Captain Williams was rather more concerned about the possible desertion of the cat than of the crew. However, the cat was ■resent and correct” on sailing day In April and the bond was refunded.
Training Bsip Native
Seamen
The BSIP Government, with the aid of Colonial Development and Welfare Funds, is to start a training scheme for native crews of govern ment vessels. A Marine Officer is to be engaged as instructor.
In the meantime, some of the senior deck and engine ratings from smaller Government vessels will be given, in rotation, six weeks’ train ing on the pride of the BSIP fleet —the 118-ft Melanesian.
The Solomon Islanders, like most of the native people of the South Pacific, make very good seamen and on most of the smaller ships—66 ft and less—they act as Masters in local waters.
The BSIP scheme is a step in the light direction. It is a pity that it could not be done on a South Pacific
regional basis —a nautical version of the Central Medical School in Suva.
Mariposa, Monterey On
Different Route
The Matson liners, Mariposa and
Monterey, are to operate uni. new schedule which will taL Tahiti on the run from the ¥ Australia. The service will with the sailing of the Mat from San Francisco on June;
ler the new schedule, Aus is sailing to San Francisco will n Honolulu for two days and ht instead of one day. i three weeks between sailings, osa and Monterey will main he following 42-day round-trip iry: Francisco, Los Angeles, te, Auckland, Sydney; back to md, Suva, Pago Pago, Hono 3an Francisco. can almost hear the howls of iroval from Wellington and arne about missing out ther. Under the first schedule the liners made odd calls at ports.
ws of Cruising Yachts
WEVENS —the 53-ft gaf f yawl, has found its way to -New Guinea waters. Formerly ,etoma, built at Breakfast Brisbane, 15 years ago, it was ed expressly for ocean cruis er owner died shortly after ;tion, and at the outbreak of War 11, she was taken over ! Government for Queensland ’lands service. She has had post-war owners, the present 4r. James Laing-Peach, who
renamed her Swevens 11.
The yawl is equipped with a 2way radio, a 40-hp diesel auxiliary engine, and is fully refrigerated. On board, when she arrived in Lae were her owner; a solicitor, Mr. C.
Pennington, and Mr. Arnold Jones: plus three crew members, all experienced fishermen from the Queensland coast.
Swevens II left Rushcutter’s Bay.
Sydney, in February and shortly afterwards brushed the skirt of the cyclone “Clara,” causing them to take shelter at Macleay River, NSW. for 10 days. Their trip has taken then via the main ports of NSW and Queensland to Thursday Island.
Daru. in Papua, Port Moresby, Samarai and on to Lae.
They reported that the area be- Samarai arFd Goodencmgh Jsland was a fisherman’s paradise she Marlin were so big that their 120-lbs breaking strain nylon lines —With piano wire traces—were use- J? 55 - They eventually used the log “P e - Within a few miles of Lae ?^ e y . said e y saw dozens of Marlin jumping out of the water in pairs. rT , Th . e P art y intends visiting other Territory ports, and although they have no fixed schedule, they might island-hop across the Pacific and through the Panama Canal, The party sailed from Lae May 13 in fairly thick weather and about 8-10 miles out they ran into a heavy rain squall and the engine broke down. The yacht returned under
"Hans-Fohri" on slipway in Madang, —Photo by Mac-Mig.
R: "Swevens", Australian yacht (right) alongside a local ship at the small wharf, Lae.
t 10.30 p.m. in heavy rain and ess. re parts for the disabled ) had to be flown from Sydney. lAN A, of England, lately coast ruising in northern NZ waters, Lear Auckland again, probably May, for Polynesia. Owner : will have four new com is, including Dave Morgan, ex y, which returned to Auckland months ago.
ONDA 111, of Argentina, has old in Auckland to Mr. Athol ti, who is well known as former
owner of the Fairmile cruiser Philante II and other craft, in which he cruised Polynesia. Hillary Chis well and crewman Carlos Paiva, ex Zonda 111, are seeking to remain in NZ, where Chiswell may build a smaller yacht. • IMATRA, of Auckland, is not being sold to Papeete as earlier re ported. The transaction was not completed. • MIRANDA, of Auckland, should also clear for Tahiti early this winter. • TAHITI, of Honolulu, which re
turned home from NZ some months ago, may soon head back for Papeete.
Lorrin Smith will have a new sail ing companion. • SOLACE, of England, paying her third and final visit to the Cook Islands before returning west ward and homeward bound, reached Rarotonga from Auckland on April 22 and was at Palmerston Island on April 27. • AST RID, 24-ft Auckland cutter, cleared Mangonui (Northland), May 13, for Tonga. With owner Linton Panther is Miss J. Foster-King. A 6 months’ Island cruise is planned. • TAIHOE, of Auckland, reached San Francisco, May 12, from Hono lulu after a 36-day passage. Fenton and Dambe hope to find temporary employment there. ° MARCO POLO, of Auckland, westbound round the world, cleared Balboa, Panama Canal, March 24,
When unloading 2,800 cases of explosives from "Thorsisle" (foreground) at Lae on May 6, the "Doma" (background) sustained some damage to her forecastle. The weather was rough at the time.
bound for French Oceania and Auck nd. Tony Armit and “Tig Loe >rm the crew The 28-ft yacht cleared Auckland July 18. 1954. 9 TROPIC BIRD, 48-ft Honolulu yacht owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Macdonald, was at Balboa early \pril bound West Indies. The Macdonalds will be remembered as former owners of Otter, which cruised the Islands in 1938-40. They again cruised the Islands in the pre sent yacht in 1947-49. « NORDLYS, 72-ft American schooner, owned by Walter S. John son, and captained by Mr. McDade, arrived in Papeete. Tahiti, on April 28, having left Penhryn Island, of the northern Cooks Group, 8 days previously. . . .
The Nordlys stay in Papeete is in definite. • TULAK, a 40-ft ketch owned by Mr. Yaroslav Novy, who is accompanied by his wife, left Papeete, Tahiti bound for Suva and eventu ally Brisbane, Australia on April 27." The Tulak is German registry. (March, PIM, p. 63). • MAKORA, classed as a yawl, and owned by Captain Goodwin, originally a sheep farmer in Eng land, left Papeete, Tahiti, on April 29, 1957, for unknown destination.
Captain Goodwin was accompanied by his daughters, who flew out from England to meet him in Tahiti. • SOLQUEST. The 39-ft ketch
ow r ned and operated by the Staples family arrived in Auckland, NZ, on May 23, after an 81 days trans-Tasman passage from Sydney.
On board, owner-skipper Len Staples, his wife, Joyce, and their two children, Len, 7, and Wayne 4i;
navigator Don Cameron; and hands Phil Davies and Albert B beck. Solquest is bound ton Angeles, where the Staples will. and the vessel be sold. Calll be made at Tahiti and Hawaii ketch was built with sale ii.
in view. Incorporated in it is ost every kind of Australian her, some of it now rare.
Salve Regina Blessed
By Cardinal
he mission ship, Salve Regina , due to leave Sydney on June or the Dominican mission in the tern Solomons. live Regina was formerly a gen purpose naval boat, which was jst wrecked on a sandbank near is Bay, on the NSW south coast, le Order bought her for £1,250, have spent about £14,000 re ig her at the Bjarne Halvorsen yard at Berry’s Bay, North ley. e boat is equipped with two-way ). a 40-ft mast to take an liary sail, a six-cylinder Gardner il engine, a power winch for hng cargo, and two electric ms. She is 75 ft long, has a beam, and a draught of 6i ft. ere is accommodation for 16 —14
5 and two settees which can nverted. native crew of six will have ers in the forepart of the ve Regina is smartly painted in and white, the colours of the nican order. master for the delivery voyage ptain Aksel Evensen, a Nor n, who has spent many years e Solomons and New Guinea. ■ in the Solomons he was em i by the British Government ry ships to Sydney for repair. ;w Guinea he recruited labour ulolo Gold Dredging, ther Paul, OP, of Melbourne, ie in charge of the ship when caches her base at Choiseul. r Meese, OP, the mission’s busi tnanager, was also to sail on Regina when she left Sydney.
June 1, at Berry’s Bay, at a ■ful ceremony, Cardinal Gilroy d the ship and sprinkled her holy water. He stood before ollapsible Gothic-carved altar r e the blessing. )e Regina was launched by ess Nini Ptninska, wife of the r Polish Ambassador to China
Ports of call before the Solomons were expected to be Newcastle and Brisbane. She is being taken to the Solomons by a Norwegian crew.
Disappointment For Raft
Drifters
The Tahitian bamboo raft, Tahiti A ui, sank in a storm on May 26. It was then about 400 miles from the Chilean coast. Captain Eric de Bischop and his four companions were rescued by a Chilean Navy frigate.
Thus ended over six months drift from Tahiti, the purpose of which was to prove that Polynesians could
have visited South America and re turned by using the great ocean currents.
The raft left Papeete on November foi^g ab ° Ut tW ‘ C6 “ For about two weeks before the raft finally sank, Tahiti Nui had been in trouble and the raft was actually being towed by the frigate when she sank.
Captain de Bischop said that he would immediately make plans for the return drift (from South America to French Oceania) to commence in a few months time, Though his Tahiti Nui expedition
lot shown a West-East drift be n Polynesia and South America ) impossible, he has shown that ould be a tough proposition, i available information it would ar that the raft sailed and ;d possibly a little over 4,000 i in 194 days, thus averaging ir less than 1 knot in mainly and far from pleasant con is. •lier rafts— Kon Tiki, Seven s Sisters, La Cantuta were id of balsa logs, soft and yield d the rope lashings. A report Captain de Bischop on the s of bamboo will be interesting, iShing-wear and buoyancy-loss liave contributed largely to the -up of this raft.
1 Pearl Burns In New
Guinea
’ old friend of the spud run, ea Pearl (October PIM, 1956), to grief on the north coast w Guinea in early May. i Sea Pearl, while on a voyage New Zealand to Manila, t fire on June 3. All 22 mem )f the crew took to the boats inally reached safety on the north of Wewak, NG. The °earl was later sighted still ig about 27 miles NW of k. m PIM last reported on Sea
Fearl she was owned by the Victor International Corporation of New York but flew the Panamanian flag of convenience. She was originally a US Navy net layer, the Maria Ines. Last year this 876 tons wooden vessel was freighting pota toes to NZ during the potato famine there; she had also carried fruit from Rarotonga to NZ. She was refrigerated.
Another Fiji Mishap
The 23-ton single-masted sailing cutter, Cakaubalavu, sank late in May after striking the Vatu-i-cake reef to the north of Ovalau, Fiji.
Captain Sovea and six members of her crew rowed to Levuka in a life boat.
Takaubalavu did not have any cargo on board when she foundered.
The Daulomai, manned by Mr.
A. L. Miller, of Levuka, and his crew made a preliminary survey with a view to salvage.
Mr. T. Hurley, of Hurley’s Ship ping Agency, Suva, went to Levuka to supervise salvage, if this was possible. If he found it possible to raise her, he will use drums to give the cutter buoyancy on the 10-12 miles tow to Levuka.
Father Bransfield, of Levuka, took his launch Shamrock close to the Cakaubalavu, and reported later that she was well under water, with
only the upper part of her mast showing.
In The Bag
Mr. Willie Schutz, of Tarawa, whose wanderings have been men tioned from time to time in this column, gained his certificate as foreign going First Mate at the May examinations at Southampton, England. On completion of a short marine radar course, Mr. Schutz will be looking for another ship.
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' South For Survey
vannah, ex-Colorado del Mar, okitika, ex- Waipu, was in Mort’s , Sydney, recently for survey, is owned by the Societe des sports Maritime, of Noumea, trades within the New Cale n group. ! was bought by Captain Savoie sw Zealand in 1954, but was to her present owners within sar.
It in 1916, she was well known ie New Zealand coast before into tropical service.
'Gan Goes Home Under
Tow
ex-barge Deutgan, owned by larcel Marinacce, of Santo, /as towed away from Sydney iv 25 after being in that port Imost a year looking for a was towed by Damadora del )f the Savoie fleet, and it is itood that her destination is here in the New Hebrides, here will not be decided until rives at Noumea, s not known in Sydney to use the owner will put her; be that he will use her him itil able to sell her. was put up for auction in r about a month ago.
Revising The Charts
HMNZS Lachlan, well known in Fiji-Samoa waters, where she has carried out ocean sounding and coastal survey work each winter in recent years, is to be joined in this important task this year by a Royal Navy survey vessel, HMS Cook.
One of four similar vessels, HMS Cook, with a complement of 10 officers and 125 ratings, was due at Auckland June 17 and was expected to sail for work in Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands waters late in the month. The 4-year-old vessel is equipped with the most modern electronic survey equipment which is also soon to be fitted in Lachlan.
Sprucing Up
The American-owned Nassau (Bahamas) -registered 104 ft, two masted staysail schooner Tiare Moan, trading in the Cook Islands went to Auckland for refit in May.
With owner-skipper Walter S. John son was Mrs. Johnson and their three children, and a crew of 11.
Mrs. Johnson and the children re turned thence to the US, per Mari posa.
The elegant Tiare Moari, with her dacron rot-proof sails, was to head back for the Cooks in June.
The Tonga Government’s despatch vessel Hifofua, completing her Auck
land refit, sailed again for Nukualofa on May 27.
Tonga Fleet Still Growing
The announcement a couple of years ago that Tonga Copra Board was to have a handsome 500-tonner built in Holland, was big news in the Tongan maritime world. Then came the further announcement last year that the same yard would build a somewhat smaller but well appointed despatch vessel for general government duties. These vessels would replace the present ketches Aomu and Hifofua— taking their names.
Now comes word that the Tonga Government has ordered a third vessel from a British yard. This will be an open-decked landing-craft type of Public Works Department duties. Known as a Thames Trans porter, this vessel will measure about 60 ft by 15 ft. She has bridge and machinery right aft and loading ramp forward and draws very little water. There is no accommodation, provided in the standard design.
She will presumably be shipped out from England as deck cargo.
It seems that in Tonga, Aus tralasian ship-builders have lost a good customer to Europe.
Beagle-Cruise Closer
A long-mooted scientific cruise along the route followed by Charles Darwin in HMS Beagle 122 years ago seemed somewhat nearer realisation
lay, when the council of the J New Zealand Society reported representations have been made he government to provide a 1 as New Zealand’s contribution e proposed venture of the com l Royal Societies of the Corn health. e proposal now appears to be only the Pacific section of the le route would be retraced — Vest Coast of South America ;he Pacific Islands. • cruise would extend from May member, 1958, thus falling with" le International Geophysical and adding to the sum of ific knowledge to be assembled ? that period. he NZ Government decides to jrate, likely ships might be ittle oceanographic research Tui, or the larger and more rtable reserve cable ship R. A. Falla, of the Dominion to, Wellington, is handling Zealand arrangements.
Ie You An Nz Seaman?
who served in the NZ ant Marine and were taken 3r by the Japanese during the re entitled to a further ex grant of £24/14/6, according May announcement from gton. indents of deceased seamen io entitled to the grant.
R Southern Waters
former NG 600-ton Swedish ’reighter Viria, sold by New - Industries some months ago, nter the Sydney-Hobart sor ter certain alterations.
For Igy Duties
ided especially for Pacific c research work during the itional Geophysical Year, the 70-ton survey vessel Takio immissioned in Japan on > is equipped to take sound • as low as 5,000 fathoms ft). The vessel, which may south of the Line, has an length of 190 ft. Like all tnent- operated Jap vessels, s not carry the Maru suffix name.
Diverse Duties
before has New Zealand ;h a succession of small Jap lips in her ports as has been is winter, resulting from a id expanding frozen meat Japan. ler times these small vessels, y over 1,000 tons, are acting :rs to the Pacific tuna fleets le Antarctic whalers during nmer—running whale-meat me. are insulated but not re sd. They load ice into their ah the cargoes.