Bulletin
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Board
PIM is frequently asked for help to trace some Island identity who has got out of touch, or whom somebody wants to contact. So this Bulletin Board has been set up for that purpose. Applica tions for penfriends will not be enter tained. Below is the first batch of in quiries: Lester Gaynor, 152 Burgess Avenue, Westwood, Massachusetts, 02090, USA, wants to know the whereabouts of Oscar Barrack, first radio operator put ashore on Christmas Island when Britain re occupied it in the 19305. If deceased date and place of death required.
P. M. Thomas, of the University of Adelaide's Department of History wants to trace descendants of George Pritchard (1796-1883), Protestant missionary and British Consul in Tahiti and Samoa. His son, William Thomas Pritchard was British Consul in Fiji.
What became of Englishman Eddie Searle and his Finnish wife Lisa, who sailed from Rarotonga for Tonga and Australia on September 28, 1972, asks W. H. Percival of Rarotonga. There are fears they were lost at sea in hurricane Bebe in October, 1972.