To Sea In
p. 107 · Read in the full issue
A Tub
Fiji residents in July chuckled at the antics of a sailor of the Australian destroyer “ Anzac", during the vessel's visit to Lautoka following the Tongan coronation.
Stranded on an outlying un inhabited island after a well patronised dance on its beaches he paddled home in an ice box.
The happy tar fell asleep while the festivities were in full swing, and was overlooked by the organisers in the early hours of the morning when they left for the mainland a mile distant.
They did however leave for later collection a large ice box.
Waves that night were choppy through a strong south-westerly and running to four or five feet; no place for a 6 ft x 2 ft 6 in. x 2 ft 6 in. ice box, but he made it with the aid of some Hotsam for a paddle.
Was his journey really necessary? Not really, as the destroyer’s captain, having ittended the shindig himself and knowing what sailors are, dispatched a launch from the ship to the island shortly before sailing time.