Fine And Go
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Jap Poachers Pay Their
THE Japanese shell-poachers who were captured in the North west Islands of New Guinea in August, and fined a total of over £6OO, paid their fines at the end of October,, and the Kyoto Maru was then escorted out of New Guinea waters by Australian naval craft.
The Japs were held at Manus and given until October 31 to pay, and the authorities were making pre parations to seize and sell the ship, when at the last moment the funds came along.
The Japanese had been given formal permission by the American authorities in Japan to fish for shell and similar products as far south as the equator. In fishing in the isolated Hermits and Anchorites (Northwest Islands), they were a little south of the Equator.
Mr. C. R. Palmer, a lay-worker of the Methodist Mission on Bougain ville, who was invalided back to NZ in September with poliomyelitis, may be unable to return to the mission field. He and his wife gave valuable service during their first term in Bougainville.
Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart, Acting Governor of Fiji was Acting Senior Commissioner for the United King dom on the South Pacific Commis sion at its eighth session of the Commission which was held at Noumea.