Built for carrying passengers and mails between steamers in the roadstead at Nauru Island and the shore, a fast 28-foot motor-boat will be launched from the yards of Messrs Collings and Bell (Auckland), in the next few days. The boat, which is to the order of the British Phosphate Commission, is of unusual design and construction. It has to negotiate the surf-bound gap in the reef, and when not in use is to be hoisted in davits near the loading cantilever. To minimise the risk of swamping, the boat is divided by transverse watertight bulkheads into four compartments. The forward one is for mails, the next for the helmsman, the third for the engine, and the after one for the accommodation of about 12 passengers. In view of the arduous service, the boat is of exceptionally strong construction. Her speed will be about 1G knots. The boat will be taken to Island shortly in one of the commission's phosphate ships. J
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 11
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