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Just to prove that he was trrect, our Hollandia, Nether nds New Guinea, correspondent as sent us a whole sheaf of r ochures, pictures and whatnot > prove that the new broadside ipway at Manokwari has got a fting capacity of 3,500 tons (see ige 117, April “PIM”, where we iggested it might he a mis rint.) It therefore is the biggest slip ay in these parts, most Pacific lands Slipways being capable : accommodating little more lan 300 tonners.
Length of the slipway is 400 and the whole establishment modernly equipped with re aving, travelling cranes, over bad travelling cranes, mobile anes, trolleys, compressors and obile welders; 125 skilled Euro !ans, Chinese and natives are aployed there, plus 250 un tiled natives.