Japanese Poachers In
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New Guinea
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Feb. 3.
JAPANESE shell poachers are again actively engaged in denuding our reefs of trochus shell.
They are carrying out operations in the outlying groups of Tasman and Mort lock, which are situated north-east of Bougainville.
A schooner, believed to be the Kiyoo Maru, arrived from Ontong Java (Solo mon Islands) and anchored in an iso lated part of the Tasman Group, where the Japanese commenced operations.
Later they moved to the Mortlock Group.
The B.P. steamer Morinda , on her re turn voyage from the New Hebrides in February, was delayed at Norfolk Island by a cyclone. As a result, 50 tourists were stranded on Lord Howe Island.
Some returned to Australia by the Tai ping. visiting Lord Howe on a cruise.