Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 January 1931Vol. 1 No. 6

The Bellatrix

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Arrives in Sydney from Noumea

THE French Sloop, Bellatrix, arrived in Sydney on December 31 from Noumea, in order to undergo her annual overhaul.

On entering the Heads she fired a salute in honour of the Commonwealth, and was replied to by guns from Middle Head.

Since her last visit to Sydney at the end of 1929, the Bellatrix has cruised to Tahiti, the Wallis Group, New Hebrides and New Caledonia. She is under the command of Captain M. Bastard. ———

A typical coconut plantation in the Western Islands, New Guinea. News has been received in Sydney that a tidal wave caused damage to plantations in this part of the Territory.

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