College Students Will Have
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Fun In South Seas
(They Hope)
TAHITI and the South Seas generally have not lost their appeal to seekers after glamour and adventure, in July 19, young college students set out from Los Angeles to sail to French Oceania on a 110-ft. converted US Navy sub-chaser.
They took with them 15,000 gallons of fuel oil, and, for trading with the natives,
cartons of cigarettes, mirrors, beads and other trade goods. They also took heavy shark-fishing gear and nets.
Apart from shark-fishing and trading they just “plan to have fun.”
Mrs. E. H. Allen, who, as Sister Edith Frost, was a nurse in the Islands before her marriage, recently visited Australia after nine years in England. During the war, she was attached to the Observer Corps in Scotland. Her husband, a Commander of the RN, is now stationed in Hong Kong,