CONTINUED SILENCE.
PARAIA’S OAIEN OF ILL-LUCK. LONDON, Nov. 24. In spite of a statement by Lloyd’s that they do not expect to hear from the four-masted barque Parma, which left London on October 4 for South Australia, until she reaches her destination in, perhaps, 100 days, the Daily Alail draws attention to the barque’s continued silence. It recalls that she had two girls on board on the last trip, which is regarded as unlucky. The girls were Betty de Cloux, the captain’s daughter, and Sonia Lird, a film actress. On this trip the Parma carried a white rabbit, also an omen of ill-luck; while before she sailed a lifeboat crashed on to the boiler-house, scalding with steam and drenching the crew.
Early, in November grave fears were entertained in London for the safety of the Parma. There were suggestions that she might have foundered, but these were countered with the speculation that a body which had been washed up was that of a man who had fallen overboard.'-’
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 12
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168CONTINUED SILENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 12
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