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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1957Vol. XXVIII, No. 5

Polynesian Association Party in Sydney

p. 159 · Read in the full issue

!' The Messagerles Maritime ship Resurgent, which has been on the Marseille-Noumea run for the last

few years, is to be replaced by a chartered Italian motor ship, Melanisien. This vessel was con structed in 1927, is a motor vessel, carries 6,000 tons of cargo, 100 first class passengers, and 80 in 3rd class.

First voyage will be in January.

Terminus will be at Noumea; the vessel will not continue to Sydney.

lands visitors to the Polynesian Association ydney recently included, left, Mademoiselle yne Chodzka, of Noumea, and Mr. Robert

Lee, of Papeete, Tahiti. Right, Mr. George Solomon, of Rotorua, and Miss Mona Menzies, of Norfolk Island. —Photo by Teleohotos.