"Beulah's" Timber Cargo
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Jettisoned
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Sept. 24. •THE Flood Bros, liner Beulah arrived * here from Pacific Coast pcrts via Fiji and Tonga on September 22, with a large load of lumber and general cargo for Samoa.
When she was some 700 miles east of Hawaii recently, on her voyage to the Islands, the vessel ran into very rough weather. The cargo began to shift, and the position became serious. Captain T.
Bragdo decided to jettison some of the lumber cargo, and 15,000 feet of timber was thrown overboard. Eventually the remainder of the cargo was made fast and the Beulah lost the heavy list that had made her wallow in the boisterous seas.
For their good work in the emergency.
Captain Bragdo gave great praise to the crew, which includes Samoans, Fijians, and Tahitians.
Mr. Kenneth Whyte, 22, of Melbourne, who recently arrived in New Guinea from the Solomon Islands to join the staff of Messrs. Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., died from blackwater fever in Namanula Hos
pital, Rabaul, on September 26.