YACHTING.
OTAGO CREW SELECTED. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEOBAM.) DUNEDIN, January 19. At a meeting of the Otago Yacht and Motor Boat Association to-night, Carl Molier anil Roy Montgomery were selected to represent Otago in the Comwell Cup contest to be sailed at Lyttclton next month. Hugh Riddel! was selected as emergency. It was reported that Colleen, built by the Takapuna Club, and brought to Dunedin eighteen months ago, was a very fast boat, and far superior to Betty. Messrs J. T. Paul and E. A. Davys were appointed delegates for Otago to the Dominion Yachting Conference.
The savage inhabitants of the Dutch Island of Mas, off the coast of Sumatra, still practise head-hunting and decorate their homes with human skulls. Painted on a piece of apron calico, a painting by a London plumber was recently exhibited in a London show and bought by a well-known expert. Tones of the human voice are echoed sixteen times, in what is known as the Joseph Gallery, a cavern, in one of the salt mines in Bnmanifc
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18904, 20 January 1927, Page 13
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172YACHTING. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18904, 20 January 1927, Page 13
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