Amateur Navigator
p. 10 · Read in the full issue
Papeete, Dec. 2
THERE departed recently, for France, M. and Mdme. Coulon, who are well-known property-owners on Raiatea. M. Coulon has just been elected by the Assemblee Representative Presi dent of the Union Francaise.
One is reminded of a characteristic story of M. Coulon. Many years ago, when he was manager of the Christmas IslancJ plantations owned by the late Father Rougier, he was on a schooner bound from Papeete to Christmas Island.
The schooner’s Captain died suddenly and no one aboard knew anything about navigation. M. Coulon took the helm and did without sleep while he kept the vessel on a certain course. Some days later land was sighted—and it proved to be certain islands in American Samoa.
Having got his bearings, M. Coulon took the schooner to Apia. From Apia he navigated the schooner back to Papeete, to sign on a new skipper.
A New Zealand architect has drawn up plans for a new church, to be built by Fijian Methodists, in Suva, at a cost of £25,000.