Makoa Visits Wallis Is.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, July 6.
MESSRS. BURNS PHILP’S auxiliary schooner Makoa (Captain Doughty) returned to Apia from a trip to Swain’s Island and the Tokelau Islands on July 1, carrying a full load of copra. The vessel left again on July 4 for Wallis.
Island, a French possession to the north east of Fiji which has been without communication with the outside world for some considerable time and where Messrs. Burns Philp maintain a trading station.
Passengers on the Makoa to Wallis Island were Rev. Father Schwer, of the Roman Catholic Mission. and three Samoan catechists who will complete their training at the Central Training School and Seminary of the mission at Wallis Island. Another passenger was Mrs. May, whose husband is taking over the management of Messrs. Burns, Philp’s branch at Wallis from Mr. Jones.