Withdrawn

Suwarrow For The

Sea-Birds Again.

MOP Divers Withdrawn To Manihiki

IT is apparent that the attemp fish Suwarrow for mothen pearl has not been successfi: It was reported from Rarotonga; in October that the party of dili working at Suwarrow atoll s mid-June under contract to D. C. Brown, were all to be evr ated and returned to Manihiki..

Mr. Brown’s license to the fisl; rights expires on December 31,, he would doubtless have been successful tenderer when applicat were again called by the Admi tration.

For the number of people engs —initially about 80—and the n ber of licensed diving suits in (4), the harvest had not been g up to mid-September. No do with the possibility of the Mani lagoon again being opened to dri operations in 1957, the drivers Suwarrow feel that they can: better for themselves back at he Reports from Suwarrow seen: suggest that most of the shell far located has been in deep w, and that the lagoon is there? a purely “machine (suit) div\ proposition.

To mid-September, 11 tonsa shell had been taken in all.