Author Frisbie Returns To
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Puka Puka
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Dec. 13.
THE new B.P. inter-island vessel “Matafele” left Apia on December 9 for Puka Puka and Nassau Islands, at which latter place she is to lift about 200 tons of copra. Passengers on board were the well-known American author, Robert Dean Frisbie and his wife and child, and Pastor R. Reye, of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission.
On her return, the “Matafele” will take up running in an inter-insular ser vice in Fiji. She is under the command of Captain Tanner.
Rt. Rev. W. H. Baddeley, D. 5.0., M.C.,
M.A., Bishop of Melanesia, left the
Solomon Islands early in January on board the mission vessel “Southern Cross” to visit the Melanesian Mission stations on the island of New Britain in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea.