Leave Brisbane
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Fetu-Moana Crew Leave Brisbane
A FTER an unexpected two months in TV Brisbane, the Fiji crew of the 40-ft. cutter Fetu-Moana sailed from Bris ane on January 24. They went as crew n the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony essel Nareau.
Fetu-Moana left Loma Loma in the 'ijian group in mid-October on a trading rip around the Group. She was not card of again for over four weeks when tie arrived at Stradbroke Island near irisbane, Queensland. The cutter had sen battered and blown 1,500 miles by vo cyclones, a squall and sundry mnderstorms.
In Brisbane, the Fijians were at first ired for by the Seamen’s Mission and iter lived at a Methodist Church home l the city. They worked for a cement rnipany and were able to do considerable lopping on their earnings before they ft for home.
Fetu-Moana’s skipper, John Morris of evuka, has “given the sea away.” He d not return with his crew but is now orking in Brisbane.