Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1951Vol. XXI, No. 6

Death Of Captain Rutherford

p. 51 · Read in the full issue

Page 5151

ONE of New Guinea’s most popular shipmasters, Captain Bart Ruther ford, died in Brisbane Hospital, on November 19, at the early age of 47, from cancer. His most recent charge was the Kulu, which was maintaining coastal communications, out of Madang. He is survived by his wife and two children.

A Fourcroya tree in Launceston, Tas mania, which came from Fiji 25 years ago as a seedling in a pot, is now 30 feet high—in a late run it has added 16 of the feet in the last three months. It belongs to Mr. R. H. Charlton; it was sent to him by his brother who lives in Fiji. The tree flowered recently for the first time, and, apparently, for the last.

This tree is believed to flower only once.

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