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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 September 1939Vol. X, No. 2

Hawaii-Tahiti Service

p. 20 · Read in the full issue

Planned

IT was reported in Honolulu, in August, that Captain S. S. Hayden, of Maine, U.S.A., was making plans to commence a regular passenger service between Honolulu and Tahiti with his 300-ton auxiliary schooner-yacht "Aries”. Cap tain Hayden was collecting information from the authorities in Honolulu and in Tahiti concerning port and wharfage charges and pilotage fees. It was expected that if he commenced the service he would make regular calls at islands en route, including the Marquesas.

Mrs. Martha Brewer, wife of Mr. J.

Brewer, of Robinson River, Papua, died in Port Moresby Hospital on August 15.