N.G. Mails Lost

From Our Own Correspondent

Rabaul, Mar. 27.

|T would appear that the old Marsina (renamed the Halving) was deter mined that her foundering off the Queens land coast in March should not go un known to New Guinea residents, who had been associated with her for so many years when she was on the B.P. run.

Ninety-six bags of mail were put on board the Halving when she sailed for Rabaul with a cargo of coal from New castle on March 10. There was 33 bags of letters on board when she went down.

Mr. J. R. Halligan, of the Prime

Minister’s Department, Canberra, return

ed to Australia from Norfolk Island, where he had been acting as Adminis trator for three months, by the March Morinda. He was accompanied by his wife.