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Palmerston, Six Mon[?] After
The cruising-yacht familz Fergusons, of the Ame\ yacht “Te Matangi, called Palmerston Island in Jut their voyage between Rarot and Nukualofa, to find the u Marsters clan living on fish coconuts and still waiting relief promised after the J ary hurricane.
It appears that Palme r was hit by the gales that la various parts of the Pacifi that time, and they were o £lOO by the New Zealand 7 ernment to buy relief food\ In July, when the Fergu were there, they were still v ing for a ship to bring it. last vessel they had seen in October, 1958.
Because of Marsters ’ ht hood, they haven't starved it has been a long wait wit the essentials which most pe take as a matter of course.
The Fergusons left them i they could, and took their to post in Nukualofa.