On Shortland Is., S.I.
pp. 60-62 · Read in the full issue
Amazons to the Rescue On Shortland Is., S.I.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Tulagi, June 15.
THE Jubilee celebrations at an out station in the Solomons group were enlivened by a promising “scrap” between local natives and plantation Malaitamen, fired with excitement and misdirected loyalty.
The situation was beginning to worry European sticklers for law and order, and the Shortland Is. men were getting the worst of it. Seeing their men folk yielding, the women of Shortland, daughters of a warrior race, charged to the help of their better halves.
The Malaitamen, unaccustomed to this form of attack, and fearful of their treat ment at the hands of the reinforcements —or perhaps because they were gentle men —accepted defeat.
“And it was just as well for them,” say the heroines.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Stewart, of the New Zealand Reparation Estates, Western Samoa, recently returned to Apia by the Maui Pomare, after a holiday visit to New Zealand.
Commonwealth authorities have given permission for the Burns, Philp motor ship Merkur to carry passengers between Thursday Island and Commonwealth ports. This was necessary because the Merkur (recently taken over from Ger man interests), is registered in Hong kong.