Buoy Lost In Storm
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From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Jan. 2.
DURING the last days of December, a violent storm bringing with it a boisterous toerau (an evil northerly wind), caused some damage on land and at sea in French Oceania.
On Tahiti, many trees were blown down and, along the north-east coast, the sea waves invaded the land far above normal highwater mark.
The seas about Makatea Island were so tempestuous that one of the massive buoys—to which ships moor while loading phosphate—broke from its anchorage and floated away. The phosphate company has offered a reward of 30,000 francs to any vessel that may recover the buoy and tow it to Makatea or Papeete.
Miss N. Brown, BA, of the Methodist Mission at Rabaul, NG, has retired.