THROUGH PANAMA
PROGRESS OF OCEAN RACE Advice has been received by the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company that the Commonwealth and Dominion Line’s steamer Port Alelbourne arrived at Balboa at 2.45 p.m. on April 4, and the same company’s steamer Port Pirie at 7 p.m. the same day. The following day the Port Melbourne left Cristobal at 12.30 p.m., and the Port Pirie at 1.45 p.m. These vessels left Auckland within a few minutes of one another on the evening of March 13. The masters decided to make a race Home. The vessels are carrying the bulk of the wool from the February sale at Auckland. The race began when the pilots were dropped at Rangitoto beacon, and will continue until the London pilots are picked up at Dungeness.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 632, 8 April 1929, Page 11
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128THROUGH PANAMA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 632, 8 April 1929, Page 11
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