JAPANESE SAMPANS
PEARL POACHING IN TIIE SOLOMONS A LAME EXPLANATION (Uniled Press Association— By Electric Telegraph —Copyright) SYDNEY, This Day. An officer of the motor vessel Malaita, which arrived at Sydney yesterday, said a Japanese sampan was encountered by the Mtalaita off the coast of Buka Island, in the Northern Solomons. A few days later the district officer at Gizo captured seventeen Japanese who were poaching on tne reefs from small boats. The captain of the sampan was fined and ordered to report to Tulagi, which he did later.
The captain, in evidence, said that in Japan he was told that the Solomons belonged to no one in particular.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 June 1936, Page 7
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