Lyttelton carpenter on lone voyage

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31730, 13 July 1968, Page 11

Lyttelton carpenter on lone voyage

A 25-YEAR-OLD Lyttelton carpenter, Mr J. Morrison, who built himself a 32ft auxiliary cutter, the Maris

Stella, in the front garden of his parents’ hillside property in Ripon Street, Lyttelton, four years ago, re-

have fully justified our confidence in the past and will do so again by losing to Merivale-Papanui. The test has attracted our attention. After its performance in the first three games, France may take heed of the words spoken by Marshal Foch at the Battle of Marne. “My centre is yielding. My right is withdrawing. Situation excellent. I shall attack."

We have been perturbed about the reports of rough Rugby by the French. May we remind both teams of our view of Rugby. “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.” We think France will win—on litres: the All Blacks will have no pints.

cently arrived at Brisbane after sailing alone from New Caledonia. Mr Morrison, who is a former pupil at Xavier College, laid the keel of the cutter in 1963. In 1965. the craft was lifted by mobile crane from the front garden and lowered into Lyttelton Harbour. He fitted out the cutter and took a course in navigation at the University of Canterbury. He obtained good results and qualified as a deep sea navigator. Last August he sailed to Nelson, Takaka and Picton, where he worked as a carpenter and boatbuilder. He sailed to Tauranga and Whangarei later in the year and worked at each port. In May, this year he sailed the Maris Stella to Noumea and after a short holiday sailed the cutter alone to Brisbane. He expects to sail to Sydney later this year and from there to other ports in the Pacific.