Pacific Wanderers Reach
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Australia
to see the world in their own way, Mr. and Mrs. R. Strout, of Portland, U.S.A., left America in April, 1934, for the South Seas. For two years they have been cruising among the islands of the South and Central Pacific in their 37ft. yacht Igdrasil. On June 7, they reached Brisbane from New Zealand, after calling at Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island.
Their 13-ton craft carries a receiving
and transmitting wireless outfit, which has been of great benefit to the wan derers. Nearing Norfolk Island they learned of the approach of a cyclone, and so were able to escape its full fury.
The Igdrasil remained several days in port in Queensland, and then sailed for the Barrier Reef.
Mr. H. E. Hallam, mining engineer, departed from Sydney by the Macdhui on May 28 for Papua. He will complete a geological survey of the Moresby King and Sapphire mines for Mandated Alluvials N.L.