LAST SEEN RIGGING A SAIL
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Received Thursday, 8.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 12. The December issue of the Pacilic Islands Monthly says: "During the war two men arrived in Tahiti on a yacht called the Thelma. They were subsequently arrested and sent back to New Zealand on the ground that they wero evading military service. The outcome of that procedure is not known but after the war the owner returned to Papeete and the Thelma. He sailed tne yacht to Honolulu where he sold it. Then he purehased a t'ormer Unitecl States submarine chaser No. 671, lo'aded her with machinery for sale in Oceania and -gngdged the motorship Taurua to tow the craft to Tahiti. The tow began early in Oetober. When 250 miles from Honolulu the two vessels ra'n into heavy weather. The captain of the Taurua asked the owner of the 671 to leave his ship, come aboard the Taurua and cut the 671 adrift. The owner refused. The Taurua 's captain then obtained from the owner a document to say he refused to board the Taurua and the Taurua abandoned the craft. The Taurua proceeded tt> Tahiti, arriving on Oetober 19. When last seen the owner, the only man aboard, ■' was rigging a sail on the helpless craft."
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 February 1948, Page 3
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