WIFE OF VIOLINIST.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18407, 14 August 1931, Page 5

WIFE OF VIOLINIST.

TOURING WORLD ON YACHT. When the violinist Balokovic and his wife arrived at Wellington this week on their private yacht, the Northern Light. Madame Balokovic was In a dark blue sailor’s jersey, dark blue- coat and skirt, and a blue beret. Madame Balokovic. a yachting captain in her own right, is a daughter of Mr John Borden, a prominent Ne»v York financier, who. with the assistance of his own yacht, played an important part in convoying American troops across the Atlantic during the war. Mary Borden, the American authoress, is her sister, and Sir Robert Borden, formerly Prime Minister of Canada, is a relative. Madame Balokovic has engaged in yachting since she was a girl, mostlj off the coast of Maine, where she gained her captain's ticket. “That does not mean a master's ticket, quite,” said the visitor. “One has to serve so much time on a vessel of 100 tons or over io get that, but I am going to get that some day. I navigate the yacht now’ —it takes two to make the usual cheek in working out the ship’s position. ‘ After Wellington we are going to Auckland, then south and on the Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. Aft<?r leaving Australia we go to Java. Singapore, Ceylon. India, then through the Suez Canal to wander through the classical lonian Isles.” Madame Balokovic omitted to say that she was made- a member of ths Royal Geographical Society when in Brisbane, as a tribute to her skill in navigation.