A Long Way to

[?]Rakarimoa

[?]Rviors

A Long Way to Maiana

7TTHOUT murders and ship r wrecks, the BSTP has sunk back into its accustomed quiet to ;h an extent that the outcome the inquiry that was expected to held in Honiara into the drift rage of the Arakarimoa, has not erged.

Jp until March 20, the Gilbertese vivors of the disaster were still Honiara. It was expected that ;y would later go to the new bertese settlement recently estab id at Gizo, BSIP, and be re ned to the Gilberts la f er this ,r when the High Commissioner, . John Gutch, goes there on a r. f anything is likely to convince se islanders that modern com nications do not exist, this should it. In future, if they want to go miles from one island to another, y will probably realise that it is cker to go by canoe. >n December 28, the Arakarimoa, i 20 people on board, left Tarawa a voyage of 19 miles to Maiana. -ing the night the eneine broke rn and thereafter the vessel ’ted for 64 days and finally ught up about 1,000 miles away an isolated part of the Guadal al coast. In the effort to get ore, six people were lost. ; appears that it will still be ly weeks, or months, before the /Ivors reach home again. It is at t pleasant *o reflect that in these s when airlines advertise that inessmen may fly from Sydney London and return via New k (with two days for business) all within about 6 days, that *e are still people on earth to >m time has no meaning. itione Lave, Tongan heavyweight, protege of Queen Salote, is still ho fore in boxing circles under lish management. On latest ad he was to meet Italian heavy rh f Über Bacilieri, in a 10-round :est at Newcastle, England,, on ch 26. msainville’s only sawmill isri, owned by Messrs. Fryer and lorm ack—closed down at the end larch. It is not known whether mill will later reopen.