Tough Voyaging!

I ADY BISSET, wife of the former Commander of the Queen Mary, who is now a resident of Syd ney, told some moving stories to the Sydney newspapers when she re turned in mid-July from a visit to French Oceania. She said she “ex plored waters of the Tahitian Islands in a Chinese junk and for four days shared a cabin with 8 pigs, 6 cows, 5 bulls and an uncounted number of chickens which were being shipped from Huahine to Tahiti.”

Lady Bisset said that during the whole cruise she did not change her clothes, and literally slept in her boots every night. There was no food aboard the junk and they ate as best they could when they called at an Islands port.

It would appear from the article (Sydney Sun, July 15) that Lady Bisset’s only happy moments in French Oceania were experienced at a garden party given by British Con sul Charles Devereux.

Mrs. Olga Page, of Sydney, recently spent several months on a visit to Western Samoa and Tonga, and returned to Sydney in July.

She was born in Samoa and spent much of her youth in Tonga; and on her recent visit she renewed many old friendships.