PENANG TO SAIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 16

PENANG TO SAIL

MEN STILL MISSING REPLACEMENTS AT AUCKLAND DEPARTURE THIS MORNING No further time will be spent by the Finnish barque Penang in waiting for the throe missing members of Jier crew and the ship will sail this morning. The Penang arrived a month ago from Juan dc Nova, Madagascar, with guano and finished discharge last week. Oil Friday the three members of her crew, two Finnish sailors and a mess-boy from Juan de Nova, left the ship, which has been at anchor off Hobson Bay since Sunday awaiting their return. Two young men were signed on yesterday as replacements. They were an 18-year-old Aucklander, D. W. Galloway, and a young Englishman, F. P. Mitchell. Besides the missing three, two experienced sailors, a Dane and an Australian, signed off the Penang and in their place three New Zealanders were signed on, bringing the total of men joining her at Auckland to five. The two young women passengers who cmbarked at Leith, Scotland, Miss Dorothy Laird and Miss Catherine Brigger, will continue 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 of £IOO each for repatriation and other expenses will be forfeited by the absence of the three members of the crew. In addition to these another £IOO bond has been incurred by the Penang. Two more were forfeited by another Finnish barque, the Pamir. The Auckland Harbour Board's tug Te Awhina will take the Penang in tow at 8.30 this morning and will move her down the channel several miles outside Rangitoto Reef. If the wind i? favourable the barque will then sail for Port Victoria.