Crayfish

Reprieve for Daru Crayfish C-Gull Venture Tied-up in Townsville

THE 22 people (including six chil dren) who left Sydney in the Fairmile C-Gull in May, to show Papua how to catch crayfish, got no further than Townsville. Most of, them now have returned to their home States.

Five of the adventurers remained on the Fairmile, which was still tied up at the Townsville wharf in September. Most of them have got jobs in the town and “certain matters had been placed in the hands of legal advisers.”

The adventurers left Sydney and Brisbane in a blaze of newspaper glory. Some months ago, PIM published a photograph of the three women and six children who were on board. About £16,000 was said to have been invested in the new enterprise, which most residents of Papua jeered at—in some seasons there were very few crayfish in the Gulf of Papua, they said.

The C-Gull party planned to live on the Fairmile until they had established a fishing settlement near Daru; in addition to the C-Gull there were to be fopr smaller craft to engage in the fishing.

Skipper of the Fairmile, Captain B Toyer, whose wife and five chil dren were in the party, left the ship as soon as it reached Towns ville. (A Wise Man once said that the best way to find out whether or not you can bear your fellow man is to go for a long voyage with him in a small boat). fl. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Baker, of Rarotonga, Cook Is., on June 25. Mr. Baker is director of Agriculture in the Cook Islands.