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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1955Vol. XXV, No. 9

Haul at Noumea

p. 84 · Read in the full issue

t Japanese fishermen who were im prisoned in November for poaching in New Guinea waters have been repatriated in the vessel Tokay a Mam, which returned to Rabaul at the end of February to pick up a crew member who had been receiv ing treatment for an injured eye.

U Dr. Felix Emberson, of Suva, has been appointed to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, for his three years’ clinical training. Dr.

Emberson, a Colonial Development and Welfare scholar, gained his Bachelor of Medical Science degree at Sydney University, where he has been doing research on bone de formities.

t Whales sighted in the Paci: probably come from the same sto as those which concentrate in tl Ross Sea Dependency area summer, says Mr. W. H. Dawbi Lecturer in Geology at Victor University College, Wellington, N He has asked for help from Fiji his researches into the movemer of South Pacific whales.

Undersea fishermen Roy Cheval (on right) and Gay Dumte, members of the Chasse Sous-Marine Club of New Caledonia, display their catch. The admiring onlooker is R. Peyiolle.