Copra Shed On Fire
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Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Apr. 16.
T HE monthly boat-day creates a cer -*■ tain amount of excitement a>mong the residents of Rarotonga, but on March boat-day there was more than the usual excitement when word went round that copra in the Union Steam Ship Co’s sheds was on fire.
Luckily, all the wharf labour was on hand, and in a short time the road was strewn with smouldering bags of copra.
The actual fire was speedily extin guished, no great damage being done.
Had the outbreak occurred 24 hours later the damage would have been con siderable—the sheds would have been stocked with the incoming cargo from the “Matua” and no labour would have been available to fight the fire.
Mr. Horace F. Humphreys, who served for many years at Thursday Island as sergeant of the Royal Australian Ar tillery Garrison, died recently in his sleep at Sunshine, Victoria.