Now They've Cut
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Her In Two
The 100-ton Cook Islands trading issel "Tagua" made news again in >ptember when she was split in two an Auckland shipyard.
The "Tagua" had been cut through ir cargo hold by oxy-acetylene rches so that an 18 ft hull section sighing 11 tons could be added, e additional section will give an in sased cargo capacity of about 60 ns when she goes back into service.
Jointly owned by Captain D. H. k and Mr. R. Boyd, the "Tagua" jde a special trip to Beveridge Reef April to look for crayfish (RIM, ne, p. 55), and a month later she irred in a fast mercy dash from rotonga to Nassau Island and back r two sick people (RIM, July, 105).