The Cup!

MV Bulolo Goes to The Cup!

BURNS PHILP’S island trading vessel, the MV Bulolo, began an unusual voyage on October 27 when she left Sydney bound for Melbourne—and the Cup.

On board were 160 eager punters —part of the large crowd of racing enthusiasts who leave Sydney about this time each year for Australia’s most spectacular turf event.

For fares ranging from £35 a head they were to be trans ported to Melbourne and back, and would be permitted to live on board while in Melbourne. A cheap holiday, indeed.

The excursion—believed to be the first of its kind ever undertaken by the Bulolo —was planned when Burns Philp found they had 1,200 tons of cargo (mostly Carlton beer) lying in Melbourne. It will be de livered to island destinations before Christmas.

The Bulolo returned to Sydney on November 5 and was scheduled to sail again for P-NG on November 9.

Mr. Frederick Wood-Jones, famous English Anthropologist, died re cently in England, aged 75. During his varied career Wood-Jones, a B.Sc. of London University, was a Medical officer on the Keeling-

Cocos Islands, where he married a daughter of George Clunies-Ross; also Professor of Anatomy at Ade -lai d e University, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii, Professor of Anatomy at Melbourne University, and lastly, curator of the Hunterian collection of anatomical specimens at the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

U A Dutch botanist, Professor H. J.

Lam, left Australia for New Guinea in September to make a botanical survey of Dutch Territory there.

Professor Lam, who is director of the National Herbarium of Holland, said that botanical exploration in other parts of New Guinea had been carried on before, but had lapsed during the war.