AN ISLAND CRUISE.
YACHT SETS OUT TO-DAY. [THE FBESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, May 19. Bound on a 6000-mile voyage through the romantic islands of the South Seas, the 44-ton auxiliary schooner Valkyrie will leave Auckland on Monday evening with a crew of ten. It will be one of the longest voyages attempted by New Zealanders in a yacht. The Vafkvrie will be under the command of Captain Ernest Gilling, an expert mariner, who owns the yacht. It is proposed to visit the most inaccessible [ of the islands in the various groups. Two months will be spent in the Fiji and Tongan groups, and a course will then be set for the Society and Cook Islands before proceeding to the Marquesas, midway between the United Itates and New Zealand. Samoa will also be visited, and if time permits 1 Mttwffl be made at Papeete
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 20 May 1929, Page 8
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143AN ISLAND CRUISE. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 20 May 1929, Page 8
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