Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1949Vol. XX, No. 3

Overloaded Canoe

p. 82 · Read in the full issue

Page 8282

Disappears At Sea

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby, Oct. 6.

SIX New Guinea natives who have been missing since they started out on a 2-miles canoe-trip on August 20 have now been officially presumed dead.

The natives—three men and three

women—left Penikundu village, on the east coast of New Ireland, to sail to Tabar Island, 20 miles away. During the night a squall separated their canoe from accompanying canoes and, when dawn came, they were nowhere in sight.

Natives of Penikundu village say they pleaded with the missing natives not to make the trip, as they felt that their small canoe would be overloaded.

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