Tarawa To Tarawa
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Arakarimoa Disaster
In 7 Months
SURVIVORS of the headline making Arakarimoa are home at last.
They left Honiara, BSIP, on June 20, to return home aboard the GEIC Government vessel Nareau, which had arrived in Honiara to carry the High Commissioner, Mr.
John Gutch, on a two months’ tour of the GEIC.
The inquiry into the loss of the Arakarimoa will begin in Tarawa after the arrival of the Master, Cap tain Hugill, and other survivors.
The Attorney-General, P. N.
Dalton, is accompanying His Ex cellency on the tour. (Arakarimoa left Tarawa on a 20 miles voyage on December 28; noth ing more was heard of her until she appeared off the South Guadalcanal coast 64 days later, on February 28.—See PIM, March, 1956).