Pitcairn's First Post-War Ship
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PITCAIRNERS were able to board an overseas vessel for the first time in many years in September, when the “Akaroa” called at this isolated island en route to New Zealand. “Akaroa is a 15,000-ton liner; she carried 194 passen gers—including wives and children of New Zealand Servicemen—and they tra velled under peacetime conditions.
Pitcairn Islanders met the vessel m canoes and, for the first time since the outbreak of war, went on board to sell curios.
Mr. Trevor Gould, who at 9116 time had a legal practice at Nadi, Fiji, and who was Crown Counsel in Hong Kong when that city was occupied by the Japanese in 1942, has now been reported safe in Australian hands.