Polurrian’ Lost Off Bougainville

Rabaul, April. 1.

Twenty-nine survivors were rescued from the sea off Bougainville March 31, following the sinking of the Bougainville Company’s 135-ft, 4 net ton vessel “Polurrian”.

iLY reports said the Polurrian, Captain Peter Fenwick, had been ute from Sohano to Rabaul with ; 40 people aboard but no details vailable until three rescue ships ing the survivors reach here.

Other survivors might still be picked up.

Polurrian, registered at Suva, was brought to Bougainville from UK in 1951 as a copra carrier for the Bou gainville Company, formed by Bou vainville planters.