WHEAT VESSELS
RACE FROM AUSTRALIA. FIVE REACH QUEENSTOWN. LONDON, June 13. Another contestant in the race of wheat sailers, the Finnish barque Killoran, has arrived at Queenstown. Ireland. She left Port Victoria, South Australia, on February 8. The Finnish four-masted barque Pommern reached Queenstown yesterday from the same port. The Pomniern was the fourth wheat ship home, and her voyage of 141 days was the slowest so far recorded. The fifth windjammer to finish the voyage from Australia to the United Kingdom, the Killo/an, made the run in 125 days. So far the best time registered is 106 days, made by the Finnish barque Passat.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 156, 4 July 1934, Page 7
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