"Maui Pomare" Breaks Down

RECENTLY, when the New Zealand Government motor-ship “Maui Po mare’’ was on her way from Samoa to New Zealand, with a load of fruit, she experienced serious engine trouble, and had to be assisted to port by the NZ lighthouse steamer “Matai”. The “Maui Pomare” had tb undergo repairs in New Zealand and her usual timetable, be tween New Zealand and Samoa, was dislocated, causing inconvenience and loss to Samoan fruitgrowers.

The usual silly rumours circulated in New Zealand, to the effect that the “Maui Pomare” had been damaged by •enemy agency, and it was necessary for the Government to announce that the mishap was not in any way due to mali cious interference with the ship’s mach inery, and that there had been no injury to the crew or to the ship.

Mr. M. Moncur, First-Class Warrant Officer in the N.G. Service, who is sta tioned at Wau, reached Sydney early in October from Singapore where he has been spending leave. He will visit Vic toria early in November to see the run ning of the Melbourne Cup and will then return to the Territory.

The funeral of Miss Gladys Viti Monck ton, daughter of the late Mr. Hugh Monckton (Fiji), took place at Northern Suburbs Cemetery in Sydney on October 9. Miss Monckton. who was staying at Point Clair, was killed by a train on October 6 while she was crossing the rail way line near Gosford. The train was travelling at about 50 miles an hour and she was killed instantly.

Miss H, White, a New Zealander, is a new Methodist worker in Fiji: she has taken up teaching duties at the Wesley School.

Mr. Eric Weine, well-known dentist in Morobe District, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the October “Neptuna”.