Island Schooner on Fire
pp. 39-40 · Read in the full issue
in Auckland
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, November 15 ABOUT a week after she had returned from a 6,000 mile trading trip to Fiji, Pitcairn, Tahiti and other Pacific Islands, the New Zealand schoon er Huia caught fire in Auckland harbour on November 13.
She had a full cargo, including six motor cars, 60 tons of copra and mail,
but this apparently was not damaged.
Passenger accommodation was gutted and it is expected that repairs to the vessel will keep her in Auckland for several months. It was expected that she would make several Tasman crossings until the Island hurricane season is over and she could return to Pacific trading.
Miss Nell Fagan, of the Melanesian Mission, has taken charge of the Girls’
School at Torgil, New Hebrides, pending the arrival of two new teachers.
Mr. E. J. Hallstrom, who went to New Guinea in mid-November, on an expedi tion into the interior, unexpectedly arrived back at Mascot a few days later.
He said, “I had to go to bed because of severe chest trouble almost as soon as I arrived at Nondugl. There was a doctor and a hospital nearby, and they had all the modern drugs which could have cleared up my trouble. But they didn’t have a hypodermic needle to give me the drug, so I had no alternative but to return to Sydney.”