Harbour Bed
p. 46 · Read in the full issue
Wealth From Noumea
Seventy-six shells of different calibres which had fallen in the sea alongside Noumea Docks, during American war-time loading and unloading operations, have been brought to the sur face by a French contractor during dredg ing work, and handed over to the artillery garrison.
The contractor, M. Mary, has been obliged to cease work owing to the danger of accident.
A fabulous amount of material was dropped in the harbour during the intense war-time activities which, for two years, turned Noumea into the busiest port in the Pacific after San Francisco. It would probably repay an Australian or Ameri can diving outfit to get permission to examine the ocean bed for relics of the US occupation. During the war a US fly ing officer, in his spare time, took to diving as a hobby and brought up— in the diving and not in the colloquial sense—about 7DO bottles of New Zealand beer, which he sold to his mates at a good profit.
In the first five months of 1949. Suva had 134.53 in. of rain. The 57-year average for a complete year is 120.86 in.