Cruises To South Pacific
pp. 31-32 · Read in the full issue
Islands
LED by the Australian Apostolic Delegate (Dr. Panico), a Catholic party of 500 will visit the South Sea Islands in September, in the “Katoom ba” leaving Sydney on September 26. The voyage will take 22 days.
They will go first to Tonga, where they will stay for two days, then on to Fiji and the New Hebrides, Noumea and Reunion Island.
The “Katoomba” is expected to leave Melbourne on April 26 on a month’s cruise to North Queensland and New Guinea ports, including Rabaul, arrang ed by the Methodist Overseas Mission Board.
The “Maunganui”, carrying 600 passen
gers from Australia and New Zealand will leave Auckland early m July and will visit Rarotonga, Raiatea, Papeete, Moorea, Apia, Vavau and Nukualofa, m that order. The cruise will last a month.
In August, the “Maunganui” will run a cruise from New Zealand to Tongan, Samoan and Fijian ports.
Mr. R. Hicks, of the New Guinea Police Force, married Miss Norma Lloydell, of Sydney, at Manus in March.
Rev. M. Baer has taken charge of the Lutheran Mission’s school at Wasutieng, New Guinea, during the absence on furlough of Rev. J. Herr linger, who has gone to Germany with his wife and their four children.
Pen friends in any of the Pacific Is lands are sought by Mrs. Ethel Borden 732 E. Newall St., Flint, Michigan, U.S.A.
Another wanderer in the person of Cap tain Schmidt, of Miami. Florida, arrived here in February, on board his 44-tons “Southern Cross" (says our Papeete cor respondent). The vessel —a two master, with small auxiliary, built by Captain Schmidt himself—is a strange looking craft, but evidently seaworthy.