Galathea Reports
p. 22 · Read in the full issue
Prolific Fish-Life
rpHE Director of the Auckland X Museum, who made a cruise to the Kermadec Islands area aboard the Danish oceanographical survey vessel Galathea, reported that there was evidence! of great quantities of fish being present in that area—but mainly at consider able depths. Good results should be obtained by trawlers operating below the 1,500-fathom level in that region.
The engagement has been an nounced of Miss Z. Whifcombe, grand-daughter of the late Mr. F. S.
Whitcombe, of Fiji, to Mr. L. G.
Martin, of Suva, Mr. Martin, who comes from Queensland, was four years in the AIF, and was among the first Australians to land in Japan in 1945.
At a recent sitting of the Supreme Court in Rabaul, New Guinea, Terence Murphy was charged with assaulting a native and causing bodily harm. He was convicted and fined £3O.