Food”
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[?]e Kurimarau’s “Dash for Food”
JHEN Captain N. W. MacDonald brought the Kurimarau to Syd in January he stated that he ild be making another run down n Honiara, BSI in March or ■il. lut to the Sydney Sun, reporting nmarau's call at Brisbane due to weather en route, early April, voyage was featured in banner dlines as ‘lsland Ship's Dash For >d.” he sub-heading gave the impres i that the Solomons’ “300 Euro ns and 90,000 natives,” emaciated in the last stages of starvation, e at that moment peering grimly vard for the relief ship Kurimarau :ome “dashing" back at all of her knots, with desperately needed d supplies from Sydney.
Vhile fishing off the shore of ai’i. Western Samoa, in March, a ve woman was struck by light g and instantly killed.