Divers’ School at TI?
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IT was reported from Thursday Island in January that the Director of Native Affairs, who controls the Torres Strait Islanders pearling co-operative, had called a meeting of all pearling interests in the area to discuss the setting up of a training school for native divers. The meeting was to take place in mid-January followed ty another a month later.
One of the largest independent lugger operators at TI, indicated the poor showing that Torres Strait Islander divers were making as compared with pre-war Jap efforts; when he stated that in the seasod just past, his fleet averaged only 12 tons of MOP per lugger, as coml pared with an average of 23 tod by the Jap divers in pre-war days!
The Rev. Father David BeattiJ SM, has been appointed to the R.O.
Mission in Fiji and the Red Father Anthony Loft, SM, to thfl South Solomons—both from Well] ington, NZ.