How Canton Island Was
pp. 43-44 · Read in the full issue
Named
IN a letter published in the “Guam Recorder” in December, Comman der Paul J. Searles, U.S. Navy, then at Boston Navy Yard, made available the following interesting information re garding the naming of Canton Island and the trip from there to Guam by the survivors of a wrecked schooner: “Canton Island, which came into pro minence last year when a Navy-National Geographic Astronomical Expedition based there, was named for the sailing ship ‘Canton’, out of New Bedford, Mass., which was wrecked on the island in March, 1854. The crew of 31 men row ed in open boats north westward for 49 days, finally reaching Guam.
“I hope to get a chance soon to go
to New Bedford, and will see if there is any record of the wreck, etc., in the Whaling Museum. Will also try the Es sex Institute, Salem”.
Mr. G, A. Carswell, a teacher on the staff of the public school at Levuka, arrived in New Zealand from Fiji by the January “Niagara”, after serving for three years in the Colony.
Dr. O’Connor is the new Quarantine Officer at Thursday Island, replacing Dr. Redshaw, who has been transferred to Fremantle. Western Australia.
Rev. Leslie Stibbard, priest-in-charge of the Melanesian Mission’s Central School at Maravovo, 8.5.1., recently married Miss Margaret Piers, also of the M.M.
Bishop Baddeley solemnised the marri age.
During the annual B.P.C, ball, on Nauru Island, the engagement was an nounced of Mr. Lyn Norwood, secretary of the B.P.C. clerical staff at Nauru, to Miss Betty Horton, Sister at the Admin istration Hospital. The popular couple were showered with congratulations.