Champion ?
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Who’s The Champion ?
IN mid-March, in the Bay of Is lands, New Zealand, Mrs. Kath leen Hassall, formerly a resident of Nadi, Fiji, hooked and landed . a
black marlin weighing 542 i lbs.
Sparkling headlines the world over said this was a woman’s world re cord—that it beat by 301 b a marlin caught by Mrs. F. K. Farrington off the NSW coast in 1949.
Now, turn to that delightfully readable book. Rainbow in Tahiti, written by Caroline Guild, an American woman, and published by Doubledays in 1948. On pages 21 fi ts, Mrs. Guild describes how she and her husband went down from Tahiti (where they lived for several years) to New Zealand, and fished in the Bay of Islands, and how she hooked and landed a black marlin which was officially weighed at 823 lb. She tells how she received in numerable messages, and the formal award of the woman’s world cham
pionship.
NG Urged to Plant More Trees
A DUTCH professor, Dr. J. P.
Thysse, of the Department of Planology at Bandung Technical University of Indonesia, has recently completed a survey of housing in the South Pacific for the South Pacific Commission.
He said that satisfactory dwelling conditions exist in New Guinea for the native population at present, but in view of the improving standard of living, a better type of dwelling will be required in the near future. He advised the planting of more trees to meet the inevitable demand for timber.
The Professor’s recommendation will surprise many people who have been convinced by recent publicity that New Guinea is a land of vast timber resources. Probably what the Professor means is that where tim ber is cut out there should be a vigorous programme of reafforesta tion.
Mr. Frank Exon, of Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., has returned, for a few months, to the managership of the Fiji branch, after long leave in Australia. His next move is uncer tain. Mrs. Exon and daughter Jocelyn expect to go back to Suva with him—daughter Elizabeth was married recently in NSW.