U.S. Destroyer On A Secret
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Mission
rE U.S. destroyer “Maury” is ex pected in Auckland this month. She left Honolulu on September 14 on a “secret mission” to the South Pacific. It was reported that her mission is “one of a number of moves to be made by the United States for the consolidation of aerial and naval defence lines in the Pacific with those of Britain and France”.
Mrs. Smallwood, a former teacher at several of the Government schools on is lands in Torres Strait, died recently at Thursday Island, where she had lived in retirement for a number of years.