Flour Famine on Norfolk Is.
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Norfolk Is., June 14.
Supplies of flour ran out in Nor folk Island several weeks before the recent visit of the BP ship Malaita Islanders, who are gifted impro visers, were using oatmeat, sweet potatoes and bananas to provide material for bread substitutes.
Before the recent visit of Malaita only one other Australian ship has called here since Christmas.
After a year in Sydney, mostly in receiving medical treatment, Mr Matt Wells returned recently to his; plantation on Malo Island, New* Hebrides.