"From Tokio"
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Japanese Captain's Chart
Letter to the Editor I HAVE read your interesting articles, from time to time, about Japanese fishing boats, etc., in the Pacific and I would like to advise you that some months ago a Japanese schooner, regis tered in Rabaul, called at my plantation, and the owner came ashore to buy some goods.
In the course of conversation, I asked him how he knew all the passages and reefs, because the waters around my place were unsurveyed, and I had never heard of a chart that showed them.
He politely informed me that he had an Admiralty chart, showing all reefs, passages and anchorages of these “un charted” waters.
In reply to my next question as to where he got the chart, he said: “From Tokio”.
I am, etc.,
New Guinea Planter.
20/9/’39.
Mr. R. Crompton, who is head of the well-known legal firm of Suva, Fiji, ar rived in Sydney early in October, and spent some busy days in Sydney and Melbourne. He expects to be back in Suva at the end of the month.