LOSS OF THE WATERLILY
MASTER RETURNS TO DOMINION (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, June 20. Clad in a white tropical suit, his other possessions having been lost when the ketch Waterlily foundered in the Pacific, Mr Stephen Gerrard, master of the vessel, arrived at Auckland to-day by the steamer Karetu from Suva. The Waterlily, manned by a party of Christ’s College old boys, left Auckland in May, 1932, for a pleasure cruise of the islands, but was wrecked last March off Waitupu, in the Gilbert and Ellice group. Four members of the crew had left the vessel prior to the wreck and two others returned home subsequently, Mr Gerrard being the last to come back to New Zealand. T Although he had no plans for the immediate future, said Mr Gerrard, he would willingly undertake another cruise to the Pacific islands, and he hoped to return.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21985, 21 June 1933, Page 9
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