EVENTFUL TRIP NEARS END
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AUCKLAND, Dec. 12. Xoaring tlie end of an eventful vo.vage from Englaiul to Australia, whicli has taken four nionths and has cost them more than £750, a voung English emigrant and his Australian wif'e were Ihe only passengers on the New Zealand Shipping Company'S Kaimata which reached Auckland today from Loitdon via Port Said. They .are Mr. aml Mfs. R. G. P1 uin le\*, two of tlie 88 people who, driven to desperation by tlie shortage of shipping, attempted t'o sail from Gillingham, Kent, to Freiiiantle iii the motor yacht Thebys, formerly a Nayv Fairmile lhuiich. The venture wak abandoned at Port Said. Demobilised from the R'oyal Air Foree in Januarv, Mr. Plumley, wh'o married in Anstrhlia while he was serv ing in UvTortheni Territory, is going t'o take up a job as an accountant for' his father-iii-law who operafes a merce/'s business in Melboume. ITe hild his wife will leave for Svdney next wee'k. ' • " ~ •*" • ' ' a .
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 December 1946, Page 5
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164EVENTFUL TRIP NEARS END Chronicle (Levin), 13 December 1946, Page 5
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