New Use For Sunday Is.

A YACHTSMAN who called in August,, 1939, at Sunday Island (in the Ker madec Group, between New Zealand and Tonga) said that there was consid erable activity on Sunday Island, there being six New Zealanders there engaged in the erection of a meteorological sta tion in connection with the proposed Tasman air service. There are only two other settlers left on the island now—Mr.

Alfred Bacon, who has been there for a number of years, and Mr. B. Robinson.

kell of the L.M.S. ship “John Williams I”, which was wrecked in 1864 off the reefs of Pukapuka in the Cook Islands, is now at Livingstone House, London. The passengers of the “John Williams I” were all rescued, but the ship herself was pounded to pieces on the jagged coral rocks, her bell ringing a knell every time she struck. She went down m deep water, only a few spars

drifting to shore. Somehow the heaw bell was washed on to the coral, and, cracked and battered as it was, the Is-, landers used it for many years as a church bell. Some years ago it was taken to Samoa, and now—appropriately in the years of the “John Williams” centenary —it has gone home to rest, a memorial to the great nioneer of the South Seas —‘‘Australian Christian World”