Returned to Mr. Steward's store. He is the supervisor and manager in this district for BurnsPhilp (South Sea) Ltd. and has a wholesale store here near his home, from which he supplies the four retail stores. Made a few minor purchases and also bought from him a kumete or yaqana bowl, small and not only well finished, but representative, for 2/6. Learned from Mr. Steward that the Lakemba school is a "provincial" one maintained entirely by the government. Some 50 or 60 boys are in attendance, Mr. C. J. Haskell, head master. Returned to the schooner at 9:15 and underway at 9:30 for Argo (Mbuca- tatanoa) reef. Anchored off the north side of Vanua Masi at 1:45, ashore by 2. Saw a turtle on way to beach. Roll 65:1. Vanua Masi from N.E. (11539) Vanua Masi is a small, rough limestone island, not over 400 yards long and between 60 and 100 yards wide. According to the Pilot book and chart it is 80 feet high, although it hardly seems that much. There is a sand beach underlain and backed by slab sandstone on the northern side west of the middle. Behind it is a small clump of coconut palms, banana plants, papaya trees and listed below, scrub and grass and weeds. The trees include buka, puapua, Scaevola, Tournefortia, Pandanus, Milo, Noni, the tree with the small orange fruit (eaten by pigeons), tree with zigzag spike of small white (straw- berry-like) fruit; asymmetric large leaved Ficus, yellow flowered leguminous shrub with narrow, flat green pods. Other plants included the white flowered Ipomoea, another vine (not in flower); "maile" ferns, No. 537, which is the dominant plant on the island covering much of the limestone face as a low vine as well as growing as a shrub on the sand beach, Portulaca, Sesuvium and two or three weeds; grasses etc. Walked around the island making the accompanying sketch map, while Mr. Beck was photographing nesting birds in interior. The west end is much carved by the waves. South side presents a high shear wall which has broken down in