Remember ?
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Do You Remember ?
The British and French Pacific
were getting together in 1941. They
had a common enemy in Europe now, and were soon to get one in the East. The South Pacific of 20 years ago was, in fact, realising for the first time that it was a
geographical entity of its own and
that it had to stick together.
Here are extracts from “PIM” of April, 1941 : Canberra announced that a Pacific Copra Marketing Board was to be estab lished with headquarters in Sydney It would represent, Australia, NZ, Fiji and the Western Pacific High Commission; and bring all the copra of British and French Territories into the one pool However, the announcement gave no hint as to what would be done about the
shipping shortage.
• * * Mr. t. Flower had just commenced vork on a timber getting enterprise in valley Reach, Papua, and expected to hip 200,000 ft of logs a month to Lustralian and American markets. * * * From all around the Pacific there eemed to come persistent reports that taunt Felix von Luckner was in com aand of German raiders “somewhere” in tie Pacific. ♦ * * Underground miners employed by New uinea Goldfields, Wau, were on strike •r a 44-hour week and an increase in iy per shift. They brought a large amber of alluvial miners out with them. * * • From Apia the names of the first 25 'lunteers for overseas military service id been announced. Eleven were from 5 and Australia, and 14 were Euro sians. The Administration had recently aiv e d the regulations requiring lunteers to have more than half iropean blood and many of half lynesian blood were being accepted, iwever, prohibition against men of more in half-Polynesian blood was arousing lignation and Euronesians had petitioned ? NZ Prime Minister to further modifv 5 recruiting regulations. * * • strange craft presented itself at rotonga—a modernised Chinese junk. h . en £ J Ho ”’ , owned by Mrs. Archbold, it of the millionaire leader of the Nev inea Archbold expeditions. • * * •^' ern Th° m Pson, sole survivor of “Wing On” tragedy, had just arrived k at her home in Los Angeles, her id still a blank as to what had ipened. The “Wing On” had made rs when it foundered on a reef off after having sailed from California a pearl hunting expedition. The ketch Mrs. Thompson’s husband and ther couple, all of whom died of vation, and Mrs. Thompson was ued In a demented condition.
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