Freighters Experience

At Nauru

VI7ITH her sides stained by phosphates ** and the paint on her doors peeling off from the temperature of the tropics, the British freighter Ilvington Court ar rived in Sydney on March 23 from Nauru Island, Central Pacific.

Bad weather hovered around Nauru while the steamer was there, said the master, Captain H. Dempster. After a few hours of unloading a heavy swell would come up, and the Ilvington Court would have to cast off hurriedly and steam away from the island as there is no harbour. The vessel would then roll about till the weather moderated.

This happened every day for a fort night.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Klaucke, of Gizo, British Solomon Islands, reached Bris bane by the Malaita early in April. Be fore returning to 8.5.1., Mrs. Klaucke

will undergo an operation.