["New s.s. Koombana", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 19 December 1908]
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No expense has been spared in fitting this steamer particularly for the tropical climate of the North West of Western Australia, and she should receive a full measure of support. She is being brought out by Captain Rees in command, who is well known on the Nor'-West coast. Any suggestion made by irresponsible persons that she is not to remain on the North West running is entirely incorrect, as the steamer has been specially built and designed for that purpose, and, as mentioned in the foregoing, she is coming on the Nor'-West trade immediately she has completed her voyage from the Old Country.
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