NEW ZEALANDERS JOIN CREW OF FINNISH BARQUE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 March 1938, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS JOIN CREW OF FINNISH BARQUE

j FIVE SIGNED ON AT AUCKLAND j , (By Telegraph-Press Assn.—Copyright) AUCKLAND, Last Night. No further time will be spent by the Finnish barque Penang in waiting for the three missing members of her crew, and the ship will put to sea to-morrow morning. The Penang arrived a month ago from Juan de Nova, Madagascar, with guano and finished discharge last week. On Friday last three members of her crew, two Finnish sailors and a mess boy from Juan do Nova, left the ship, which has been at anchor off Hobson Bay since Sunday waiting their re- ! turn. | Two young men wore signed on to- ! day as replacements. They were an 18-year-old Aucklander, D, W. Galloway, and a young Englishman, F. P. Michell. Besides the missing three two experienced sailors, a Dane and nn Australian, signed off the Penang and in their place three New Zealanders were signed or bringing the total of men joining her at Auckland to five. ' The two young women passengers who embarked at Leith, Scotland, Mis;-; Dutothy Laird and Miss Catherine Bridge r. will continue on the Penang’s world voyage and hope to make a short Australian visit while the barque is loading at Port Victoria. On the departure of the barque from Auckland bonds o‘ ; £IOO each for repatriation. and other expenses will be forfeited by the absence of throe members of the crew.