Free Beer and Bikes
p. 33 · Read in the full issue
Truk islanders must have been doing some Biblical casting of bread upon the water lately but even they were surprised when it returned them beer, motor-scooters, groceries and timber. First to benefit were islanders on Fananu islet when the sea cast up a container with 9,000 cases of Schlitz beer inside it. A local miss ionary, afraid that his small flock would drink the lot, persuaded them to sell it, which they did to a store keeper in Moen for SUSS.SO a case.
Shortly after, the people on Piserach islet on Namonuito atoll, found a container loaded with motor scooters, cases of Spam, canned corned beef and 300 sheets of ply wood.
The two containers were obviously part of the 76 which were lost in April when a barge under tow broke loose and sank in heavy seas off Truk lagoon. (PIM, June p 79.) The loss was estimated at over SUS 3 million.