Raider Prisoners Released
pp. 41-42 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Oct. 10.
THE Caledonian Nickel Co. has learned from its Marseilles agent that the , nine white officers of the collier “Notou”, sunk by a Nazi raider between Sydney and Noumea on August 16, 1940, have just been released in Paris by the Germans. The master, Captain Jego, is a Breton, but the others are all Caledonian born.
The native crew (Loyalty Islanders and Indo-Chinese) were landed many months ago at Emirau Island (New Guinea) along with the crews of other vessels sunk in the Pacific.
Mr. Pat Costello, who has business and large goldmining interests in Fiji, arrived in Sydney last month from Suva.
Early in November, he went South to Victoria to watch the running of the Melbourne Cup.
Friends in Rarotonga were grieved to hear of the death in New Zealand, on September 8, of Reureu, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raitia Tepuretu. Miss Tepuretu, who died after an operation, was educated in Auckland and became typiste for A. B. Donald Ltd., in Raro tonga. Her father is Sergeant-Major in the Rarotonga Defence Force.
Mr. F. W. Burke, of Orokolo, Papua, married Miss E. Cooper, of Tasmania, at Ela Protestant Church, Port Moresby, early in October. The bridegroom is a well-known resident of the Gulf country of Papua, and his bride, who recently arrived in the Territory, was formerly a nursing sister at an AIF camp in Australia.