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Trouble In Bsi
THE 38-foot Bermuda-rigged sloop Trade Winds, arrived at Point Cruz, Honiara (BSD on October 12, and sailed again for New Britain on October 15, on its leisurely way to England. The two New Zealanders on board, Messrs. M.
Georgetti and J. Baker, came in for some official questioning because they had brought to Honiara with them three natives from Rennell Island where they had landed without a permit.
Their story was that they were be calmed and needed water. The Ren nellese had begged to come “just for the trip.”
It was pointed out here that informal methods of sea travel do not carry with, them immunity to rules and regulations. (Editorial Note: This is one. of the reasons why some wicked reactionaries look longingly back on bad old days when there was some freedom of action in the Pacific. Presumably the cast away sailor or shipwrecked mariner is supposed to go off quietly and drown himself rather than land on some ad jacent island for which he has no red tape encrusted permit to enter.)