Missing Off Viti Levu
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Coast
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Sep. 10.
DESPITE searches by plane and by parties of police and local boy scouts, no trace has been found of Mr. Raymond Bucknell, a well-known farmer and fisherman, and his Fijian as sistant, Alaveti Tukana, of Kadavu. They disappeared while on a launch journey near the mouth of the Sigatoka River.
Wreckage and the engine of the launch were subsequently found inside the river mouth and it is believed that the boat may have been smashed by heavy seas.
Mr. N. Guinio, who was reported in the July “PlM’’ to be instructing the Sepik River natives (New .Guinea) in the art of crocodile-skinning, returned to his headquarters in Cairns in August. After a week in civilisation he went off again for more crocodiles, this time to Cape York Peninsula. He believes that croco dile-hunting in Papua and New Guinea could become an important industry.
Mr W. W. A. Miller departed from Sydney recently for the Gilbert and Ellice Group, where he will join the Adminis tration staff.
Miss Marjorie Tully of Cairns. Qld., will shortly leave for Lae, New Guinea, where she will marry Mr. Charges Boat, of the Civil Aviation Department.