Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1955Vol. XXVI, No.4

Of Dynamite-Fishing

p. 63 · Read in the full issue

Page 6363

Yet Another Victim Of Dynamite-Fishing

YET another death has been caused by the disastrous practice of fishing with the aid of dynamite, reports PlM’s Noumea correspondent.

The victim was a Banks Islander who was a member of the crew of the Santo (New Hebrides) ketch Le Gratteur.

The man is reported to have taken a dynamite cartridge and detonator ashore for fishing. Soon afterwards he lost both his hands in a prema ture explosion, and died at the Santo Hospital. t The Rev. R. P. Garrity, attached to the Anglican Melanesian Mission in the Solomons for the past 20 years, has now been trans ferred to London. Mr. Garrity Mrs. Garrity, and son Robert,’ departed from Honiara per Tulagi in October.

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