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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 August 1947Vol. XVIII, No. 1

Overseas Yachts In Suva

p. 22 · Read in the full issue

Sir Josiah Crosby, noted author and formerly British Minister to Siaftn, has now settled down in Apia, Western Samoa.

He regards the Samoans as having the charming manners of the Burmese and Siamese. Sir Josiah’s book. “Siam,” is regarded as the standard work on that country.

Mrs. C. Younger left Sydney by the “Montoro” in August for Rabaul, thence to make her way to Cape Marsh, British Solomon Islands, where she will rejoin her husband. She had been a resident of Sydney since the evacuation in 1942.

Mr. Younger returned to BSI in the “Southern Cross” in 1946.

Suva has become a regular calling place for overseas yachts. These three were recently in port. They are (top left): The Danish yacht “Nord kaperen”; (right): “Barbaryand, inset, the American owners, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Howe, of San Francisco; (lower): “Mahurangi,” owned by Mr.

H. Jenkins, of Auckland. —Photo by Stinson Studios.