“ Inverbank’S ” Fire
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From Our Own Correspondent .
Apia, Feb. 20.
A RECORD auction sale of damaged merchandise, landed at Apia from the S.S. Inverhank, which caught fire in December last when on the way to Nukualofa (Tonga) was held here on February 5 and 6. The goods, mostly in fairly good condition, realised exception ally high prices.
The Inverhank was reported to have got on fire a second time, after leaving Apia. She carried large cargoes of copra and cocoabeans, shipped from Apia.
Mr. P. Drayson, manager of Dylup Plantation, returned to Madang, New
Guinea, by the February Montoro.