Lady Mountbatten’s Wander
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Escaped Hurricane
Lady Mountbatten’s Wander ings in Fr. Oceania
From Our Own Correspondent.
PAPEETE, March 24.
LADY MOUNTBATTEN, who chartered the schooner Gisborne for a tour of French Oceania, has returned to Papeete after an absence of two months during which she visited several islands of the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Gambier group, the Austral Islands, and finally the Leeward Group of the Society Islands.
Her ladyship appears to have enjoyed her experiences immensely in spite of the discomfort caused by occasional spells of bad weather. Luckily the Gisborne was able to make the commodious lagoon of Tubuai, Austral Islands, and there ride out in safety the hurricane which worked such havoc in Rarotonga and other islands of the Cook Group during the early part of February.
Lady Mountbatten intends to leave for Australia by the Makura on March 26.