OCEAN YACHT RACE
SYDNEY TO HOBART DUNEDIN MEN IN CREW (Special) NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 22. Two Dunedin men will be among the crew of five of the ketch Ilex which her Wellington owner, Mr N. W. Thomas, plans to sail across the Tasman soon to compete in the Syd-ney-Hobart yacht race to be started on Boxing Day. They are Mr lan Newlands, a returned airman who was a prisoner of war in Japan after his capture during the Malayan campaign and Mr Terry Hammond, a student at the Otago Medical School, who will be the wireless operator. Earlier this year Mr Thomas announced his intention of making New Plymouth his starting point. So far as he knows, his will be the only New Zealand yacht competing, and he will now leave from Wellington unless unfavourable conditions there turn his decision in favour of New Plymouth. Mr Thomas estimates that the voyage will take between 10 and 20 days. The other members of the crew will be Mr Carl Johnson, of Wellington, first mate, and Mr Burnell Young, a Pitcairn Islander, now living in Wellington. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26290, 23 October 1946, Page 6
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184OCEAN YACHT RACE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26290, 23 October 1946, Page 6
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