"Tiare Taporo" In A Storm
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Jan. 6.
SOME anxiety was felt recently for the safety of the “Tiare Taporo” with a large number of passengers when, after leaving Mangaia to proceed to Mauke (100 miles away), she was not heard of for four and a half days. There is no radio on board.
She had encountered the storm that swept Rarotonga and from all accounts the passengers considered that they were lucky in getting back alive. On more than one occasion, they were afraid that the “Tiare” might founder, but good seamanship on the part of Captain Cam bridge and his crew brought the' old ship safely home.
Mr. W. J. Clapham, of the Suva branch of the Bank of New Zealand, was spending furlough in the Dominion at the end of January.
Mr. Arthur Barnes, of Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua, married Miss Lorna Cook, of Perth, W.A., at the L.M.S. Mission Station in Pt. Moresby on January 7.