AN ISLAND CRUISE. YACHT SETS OUT. AUCKLAND, May IS). Round on a GOOO-mile voyage through the romantic islands ol the South ficus. the 44-ton auxiliary sehoaner Valkyrie will leave Auckland on Monday evening with a crew of ten. li will lie one of the longest voyages attempted by New Zealanders in a yacht. The Valkyrie "'ill he under the commaml of Captain Ernest Gilling, an expert mariner, who owns the yacht. It is proposed to visit (he most inaccessible of the islands in the various groups. Two months will ho spent in the Fiji and Tongan groups, and a course will then he set for the Society and Cook Islands before proceeding to the Alarquesas. mid-way between the United States ami New Zealand. Samoa, will also be visited, and if time permits a call will be made at Papeete.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1929, Page 6
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139Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1929, Page 6
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