"Delos" Is On
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Australian Business
Turned into a floating trade exhibit for this voyage only, the Australia-West Pacific Line motor-vessel “Delos” sailed out of Sydney on October 28 for points north and east. Object of the voyage is to sell more ■Australian goods in the Far East and adjacent areas, and to further this aim there sailed aboard her a dozen repre sentatives of Big and Medium business and hundreds of specially arranged exhibits of Australian products from vin tage wines and canned foods to tools of trade and industrial equipment.
Leader of the party is Mr.
R. S. Colquhoun, of the Broken Hill Proprietory; Mr. W. S.
Johnson, of the Bank of New South Wales, is deputy leader.
Mr. D. Cox, secretary of the Australian Export Federation is manager of the Mission. Other trade representatives travelling on the ship are Messrs. S. F; Cochran (Joint Coal Board); J. L. Ballantyne ( K. L.
Ballantyne Ltd., exporters); F.
S. Smith {Smith, Mitchell & Co. Ltd.); Ivor G. Morris (Morris Woollen Mills Ltd.); K. J. Eastaugh {Tom Piper Food Cannery); L. J. Dooling {Commonwealth Trading Bank); R. W. Turner {Turner Manufacturing Company, tool makers); D. D. Stead {Austral Bronze Ltd.); and Ivor Mitchell ( Mt. Isa Mines Ltd.).
The voyage will take about two months and will include Manila, Japanese ports, Shanghai, Hongkong, Borneo, New Guinea and Solomon Islands ports.