Schooner “Tahitienne”
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T'HE TaJvitienne, a schooner formerly well-known in the Islands trade, has just changed hands in New Zealand for £l5O. For the last 18 months she has been lying in Auckland harbour. The vessel is now owned by a syndicate of Yugo-Slavs, who intend using her in nor thern New Zealand waters for fishing.
The Tahitienne was built in Los Angeles in 1923, and was originally intended as a private yacht for Captain A. C. Norton, an American master mariner. Unfortu nately, her owner died before she was completed. The hull was then purchased by the Islands firm of S. R. Maxwell and Co., who fitted her for the South Pacific trade. For a time she sailed under the French flag, but owing to slackness of trade she was later withdrawn from com mission.
Mr. lan McDonald, of Robinson River, Papua, married Miss Elma Thorne Per kins, of Toowoomba, Queensland, at St.
John’s Anglician Church, Port Moresby, on May 14.