Exonerated

Gilbert Is. Mishap - Captain

Suva, Jan. 3.

CAPTAIN D. M. R. MAXWELL, of the G. & E. Colony’s motor vessel, Margaret, which was lost on a reef in the Gilbert Islands, has been exonerated from all blame by the Fiji Marine Board, after an inquiry. The Margaret, in stormy weather, was trying to get into Nanumea lagoon, through a narrow passage blasted by the Americans in the coral during the war, when she was thrown upon the coral reef. (See photograph on page 38 of December PIM.) All machinery and equipment were salvaged. (Last month we referred to the Master of the Mar garet as Captain Mullins. This was an error—Captain Maxwell is skipper of the vessel.)