Blown Off Course: Two
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Days Without Food
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Rabaul. Aug. 27.
in the month, Mr. Jack Id Steiner, manager of Fead Islands Plantation, set out for the northerly island of the Group in a small pinnace.
Half way, he was struck by a violent storm which blew him right out of his course, and he had to make for New Britain. For two days he was without food before the coast was sighted. He then came on to Rabaul, where a week later he joined a schooner for the Fead Islands.
Dr. H. Bonney, Medical Officer at Port Moresby, Papua, who has been in Aus tralia recently spending leave, has ra~ signed from the Papuan Public Service.