Moresby Ree[?]
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Lautoka Escapes
THE 30-years-old, 7,000-tons Car penter vessel Lautoka wer aground on a coral reef i Basilisk Passage, entrance to Poi Moresby, shortly after leaving tb wharf in the evening of Novembc 19. Because she was lightly loade (she had just discharged £ Moresby, and was bound for Sole mons to pick up timber), and be cause they were neap tides ths week, she was not easily refloated but, after several attempts, she w£ dragged off the reef, apparently ur harmed, on November 25.
On this voyage, the Lautok carried horses to Rabaul, an thence took timber and other carg to Moresby. Before the war, sb was called Salamaua.
Entrance to Moresby is a place < peculiar treachery, as many wel known Islands skippers have dis covered.
Miss Margaret Stubbs, daughti of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stubbs, ( New Guinea and Sydney, hi announced her engagement to M Frederick Wilshire, of Lae, Ne Guinea.