PACIFIC CRUISE
NGATAKI LEAVES AUCKLAND
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AUCKLAND, August, S
Starting a Pacific, cruise of 9000 miles, the well-known Auckland yacht Ngataki, with her owner, Mr J. W. Wray, and a crow of four on board, left at 1.30 p.m. to-day for Kawau. Ricked up by the coastal motor vessel Clansman outside Rangitoto, the yacht was towed to Kawau, from where her long voyage to Tubuai will be started
to-day. In the ■farewells which marked the Ngataki’s departure from the private launch steps, the Mayor. Sir Ernest Davis, took part. Sir Ernest lent Mr Wray a chronometer for use on the voyage. After calling al Tubuai, in the Austral group, some i'llOti miles from Auckland, the Ngataki will proceed to Tahiti. A visit will then he paid to Suwarrow, !)()() miles northwest of Tahiti, in an endeavour to test the truth of a story that treasure is buried beneath the sand rm one of the
beaches of Ibe island. The South African yacht. Land’s End, also left to-day for the Bay of Islands and Tonga. She will return to Auckland in November.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1938, Page 5
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