PENANG TO SAIL TO-DAY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22355, 19 March 1938, Page 13

PENANG TO SAIL TO-DAY

MISSING MEN REPLACED

AT AUCKLAND

THREE BONDS OF £IOO TO BE

FORFEITED

(PBKSS ASSOCIATION XELEQEAU.)

AUCKLAND. March 18. No further time will be spent by _ the Finnish barque. Penang, waiting for the three missing members of,; her crew, and the ship will put to sea to morrow morning. . The Penang arrived a montn ago from Juan de Nova, Madagascar, with guano and finished discharge J ast week. On Friday last three members of her crew, two Finnish sailors and a mess-boy from Juan de Nova, left the ship, which has been at anchor on Hobson Bay since -Sunday. waiting their return. . . Two young men were signed on today as replacements. They were an 18-year-old Aucklander. D. N. Galloway, and a young Englisninan, F. “• Mitchell. Besides the missing three, two experienced sailors, a Dane and. an Australian, signed off the Penang, and in their place three New Zealanders were signed on. bringing the total oi men joining her sit Auckland to five. Two young women passengers, who embarked at Leith. Scotland. Miss Dorothy Paird and Miss Catherine Bridger, will continue the Penang s world voyage, and hope to make a short Australian visit while the barque is loading at Port Victoria. OR the departure of the barque from Auckland, bonds of £IOO each for repatriation and other expenses will be forfeited through the absence of the three members of the crew.