A SOUTH SEA PILOT.
The following story is vouched for by Mr. C. VickerstafTe. who joined the ship Joseph Conrad at Auckland last February, and left the ship at New Guinea. The week-end party in the Solomons had been a gay and merry one, but, like all good things, it had to come to an end. To-morrow meant work: so. after half a dozen quick farewell "spots." Blank and his pals managed to grope their way on board flic cutter. Before the anchor was up, the sound of their snores kept time with the lapping waves. Blank, a little more clear in the head than the rest, kept awake until he picked up Bungana Light. "Steer straight longa him," he told the boy at the wheel. Then, having done his duty like a true British tar he "coiled up" for the night, or what was left of it. At daylight they awoke to find themselves well 011 their way to Sydney. Instead of the Bungana Light, they had picked up the stern light of an outward bound steamer!
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 21
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