Beacons
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Need For Buka Passage
From Our Own Correspondent
R Buka Passage, Feb. 1.
EPRESENTATIONS have been made by the Bougainville Association to the appropriate authorities in regard to the setting up of the beacons in Buka Passage. More than half of the originals have disappeared and those remaining are falling into disrepair.
It S? 8 been pointed out that many of the Masters using the Passage are not familiar with its turns and twists, and that the present condition of the beacons causes a good deal of delay and consti tutes a danger. Some ships when head ing for Rabaul go round the north of Buka rather than through the Passage.
Several small ships have had “reef trouble” in the Passage in the last three years including the Laurabada which went up in broad daylight, and recently the Com works had a nasty experience.