Picnic
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Tragedy at New Britain Launch Picnic
From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, April 21.
A VISITOR to Rabaul, Mrs. Beryl Fox, disappeared from a picnic launch on April 17, and is presumed drowned.
She was one of a party of 16 who had spent the day at the Duke of York Islands. When returning about 7 p.m. she fell overboard from under a per manent awning. An immediate search was made but Mrs. Fox had disappeared completely. Police, when informed, con tinued the search until the next day.
Mrs. Fox had arrived from Australia, to visit friends in the town only two days previously.