122 Motor Schooner "Frame" February and March 1925 Thursday Feb. 26th Variable ½ Bar 29.98 Atmosphere very Clear & Thunder storms brewing Science party ashore at 5.30 Am returned 6 Pm Employed Painting etc Pump light Watch att'd to. Friday 27th Variable with Calms during the day. Thunder storms with heavy rain during night. Bar 30.01. Employed Cleaning painting etc. Pump light & line-watch attended to. Saturday 28th Arose up at 6 Am. Landed party on Storm Island at 7.15 Am left there 8.30 Am and anchored off old wharf Suva at 11 Am Calm with Thunder storms brewing Bar 29.99. Unbent all sail during the afternoon. Pump attended to Night-watchman Wells asleep. Sunday March 1st Fine with Thunder storms Bar 30.00. I am a boat alongside. some boys woke me up. Went on deck and found the "boat" pulling away towards the creek called for the watchman. No reply. Looked into the Fo'le. Watchman asleep & Charley Stowrs the Cook proteem fooling around there about something. Anchor light out. No Kerosine on deck Kerosine pump broken. Find everything up. The Cook interfering. Mateleman saying it was Charley. Mate absent since 1 P.M Yesterday worse than on mate. In con- sideration of above and the inefficiency of those concerned and having no other remedy, I hereby according to power vested in me as master, Reduce the Mates pay to £11.0-0 per month The Cook Charley to have no more than £4.5-0 per month and Wells being absolutely unreliable £2.0-0 per month from this 1st day of March 1925 yet depending on their future conduct I be just back to previous salary. Master 123 Motor Schooner Frame March 1925 "the whole of this month until the 4½ of April was spent at anchor waiting our turn to get on the ship. The wind was mostly E by E with the Bar standing between 29.90 & 30.10, the lowest reading on Sunday 2nd when a strong thunder storm with heavy rain sassed over towards the SE. On this day I found that a shore boy acting as Night watchman without my knowledge, had stolen some clothes from the crew and also got away with my Torch and £11.0-0 in Cash. The boy was found later on by the Police and the stolen artic- les returned all but £3.10.0 of my money. Since March 14th Charley Wells Fraser, have been on to pay doing no work but attending carefully to their meals. Thus leaving me with a Cook, a man to the engine work when he was not skimming boats and a man to attend to the boat work the three taking turn about as Night watchman so naturally very little work has been done, but the water tanks have been cleaned and cemented the ship kept clean and the Fore mast scraped down. Of troubles I have had only the usual kind again, leaving to the position and loss of more than I expected. Mr MacLennan spent 2 weeks at Ovelau collecting specimens & Mr Beck has been busy doing the same from Suva. J G Steubeck