CLOTHES FOR PEARLS
EXCHANGE BY VOYAGERS BARGAIN REGRETTED [from our own correspondent] * SYDNEY, June 17 Seventeen-vear-old Y\ ill Stein, of Buffalo, United States, stood in shorts on the decks of the Estonian ketch Ahto, in Sydney Harbour, and shivered. He had exchanged his clothes for pearls in the Cook Islands. "Several of the crew did the same thing," he said, with a glance at Sydney's bleak sky. "Now we wish we had our clothes back again." The exchanges were made during the ketch's world trip from New York across the Pacific, at Penrhyn Island, one of the Cook Group. Two shirts bought one pearl. Trousers, cigarettes and other articles went the same way. But the crew over-estimated the value of the pearls, which are mostly discoloured. small and blemished. Will Stein, who went in for pearls, as he put it "in a big way." has particular cauf-c for regret. His shorts bear witness to his bargaining.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 17
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156CLOTHES FOR PEARLS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 17
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