Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 24 February 1937Vol. VII, No. 7

Lugger Founders Near Daru

p. 16 · Read in the full issue

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Malay pearl-divers were drowned * in January, says,a report from Dar win, when the lugger Arcadia foundered off the coast of Daru Island, Western Papua.

The vessel was one of thejoearling fleet owned by the Celebes Trading Company.

The luggers were sailing near Daru when four waterspouts suddenly formed, and converging into one huge mass of water, engulfed the Arcadia.

Mr. H. R. Rowan, Superintendent of the Lockhart River Mission, is seriously ill in the Torres Strait Hospital at Thursday Island.

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