Windfall For Sudest Island

Timber Adrift

From a Special Correspondent SUDEST IS. (Papua), July 9.

TVURING the last fortnight of June some hundreds of lengths of sawn timbers drifted onto Sudest Island beach (Eastern Papua) and were picked up by natives along the coast from Madawa Point up to the east end, and further along the north side of Sudest coast.

Most of the timbers were picked up on the east end of the island. The timber was in many sizes and lengths, from Bft up to 26ft, from 4ins to 12ins width, and from 1 to Bby 4ins thick. There were eight logs, each about 4ft in dia meter, sawn off both ends and about 26ft in length.

In the P.I.M. of May, we read of “Tim ber Ship on Reef in Solomon Islands” with sawn timber and logs from the Philippines, so we have some idea of where the timber and logs came from.

Part of the brands on some of the timbers could be read as “R.D.B.

Baslian.”