Old Hulk Disappears
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
From Tulagi Harbour
From Our Own Correspondent.
TULAGI, March 20.
A PICTURESQUE feature (or an eye sore, whichever way one looks at it) is disappearing from Tulagi foreshore.
The remains of the “Wyalong,” towed here from Rabaul to be beached and re conditioned, were soon found not to war rant further attention, and the vessel was left on the reef half ashore. Recently a gang of Malaitamen, with all their genius and enthusiasm for destruction, was let loose on the remains of the ship, and in a few hours very little was left but the boiler.
How the boiler can be disposed of is not known. It has been suggested that it should be left as a basis for (1) a Statue of Liberty, (2) a memorial to the recent rise of copra, (3) a monument to the de funct prosperity of planters and traders, or (4) a memento of the beginning of the mining industry.