The End Of The Huia

Captain Hugh Birch, in charge of a Qantas flying-boat, Sandringham, from Noumea to Suva, on January 31, took these photographs.

The first shows the trading-schooner, Huia, on the reef in Havannah Passage, near Noumea, where she struck and became a total wreck in thick weather in the night of January 28. The Huia is on the right, and a relief vessel, standing by, is seen on the left. The edge of the reef is visible.

The second picture shows the flying-boat pas sing typical New Caledonian coastal formation, near Havannah Pass.

Lautoka On

Reef

The 7,000-ton Carpenter ship, Lautoka, on Mala poa Reef, Port Vila, New Hebrides. The vessel struck the reef when en tering the port on Feb ruary 2. She got off some days later.