PACIFIC VOYAGE IN A KETCH
AUCKLAND, This Day (P.A.).—The 58ft Melbourne ketch Kurrewa 111 was expected to arrive at Suva yesterday on the last leg of its long voyage home after competing in the Los Angeles-Honolulu ocean race. A cablegram to this effect was received m Auckland today. , , . « t. The yacht will stay one week at Suva before sailing for Melbourne. The last leg of the voyage should take about five weeks. Kurrewa II left Samoa on September lo after one of the Auckland crew members, Terry Hammond, had spent three days in hospital there having an abscessed tooth extracted. All the crew are reported to be fit and well. ■
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1949, Page 4
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