Ngataki’s Long Voyage
[Special to “Northern Advocate .” 3 AUCKLAND, This Day. The auxiliary yacht Ngataki, owned and sailed by Mr John W. Wray, of Lucerne Road, Remuera, left at 4.30 p.m. yesterday on a 9000 miles cruise to the islands of the South Seas. The Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis, lent Mr Wray the chronometer from his yacht Morewa. Sir Ernest, when bidding “bon voyage” to the Ngataki’s crew, said that “Johnny” Wray called himself a vagabond of the sea, but he was also a gentleman of similar types to those British sailors whose enterprise in the 18th century had made history. Added zest is given to this cruise by the fact that Mr Wray has information more or less reliable of a treasure supposed to exist on .a beach at Suwarrow Island.
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Northern Advocate, 9 August 1938, Page 10
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