Rabaul Gets Another

Sunken Wharf

With berthing facilities severely taxed more often than not at Rabaul, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd. are building a new wharf in Simpson Harbour for their small ships.

The wharf is being built from a former copra lighter which has been sunk offshore, and out to which approaches have been built from filling and concrete.

Rabaul already has another sunken vessel turned into use as a wharf —the hull of a 10,000-tonner which has re mained where she sank during war-time bombing. For many years the bow section towered above the cut-down amidships section which formed the actual wharf. Recent refine ments have turned it into quite a presentable wharf, capable of taking ships of at least 10,000 tons.