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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 6

Severe Quakes in Rabaul

p. 22 · Read in the full issue

District

From Our Own Correspondent

Rabaul, Dec. 26.«

BEGINNING with a three-minute earthquake on Christmas Erl Rabaul-Kokopo District New Britain had 26 earth tremo in the following 36 hours. Eig? of the tremors were classed major.

It is thought that the centre some hundreds of miles away. ? date no reports of damage ha* come in.

Mrs. John Cramer-Roberts Vatukoula, Fiji, entertained at z afternoon-tea-cocktail party at tH: end of November in honour of Mil N. E. Neilson and her daughtt Marjanne. Among those preses were: Mesdames Yarrow, Blatchfon Webster, Cayser, Crabbe, Paul, Ml Girr, Hancock, Plaisted, Pearsoc Turner, Dennis, Millar.