Drifting Launch

Gets To Safety in New Hebrides

TPHE New Hebrides launch, reported in * Sydney in August to be missing, north of Vila, with several Europeans aboard, was found several days later.

The engine of the launch broke down, and the party drifted for some time.

Fortunately, the weather was fairly fine.

Those aboard used the boathook, some old canvas and some boxes, to make a kind of sail; and, thus propelled, they were able eventually to get ashore on the coast of Malekula.