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ring yachtsman who filtered into Western Solomons in the yacht about 10 years ago. After a few he was persuaded by Michael Jtti, of Vella Lavella, to exchange for an ugly scow named “Loma”. the charm of this vessel and her s had worn off, Fred sold her to Palmer as a work-horse, and set off another yacht to live aboard while ced around the islands, labaul he found the yacht “Kath up for sale and finally bought her Chinese owners. “Kathleen” was a like “Quest”, but larger, and was lown in Australia after her voyage the world about 1950. new owner returned to his former loat in the Western and Central ns, and has renamed her “Mort- Fred recently spent three months Santa Cruz group shooting croco ith Nich Winter on Nono, and now ; taken up two small plantations unda on New Georgia. One of these dar and the other is the nearby of Banga. hails from Victoria, where he was i business. He spent several years win after the war, in various types imercial activity, but when the ’ arrived in Darwin and was put sale, Fred bought her and set sail w Guinea, leaving all his cares Although he looks like a poet, i fiercely independent soul who is ’ to classify. He likes drifting but objects to being pushed around, e he will now settle down happily ding up his groves of coconuts,—

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