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Pacific Islands Monthly, 21 December 1937Vol. VIII, No. 5

N.Z. Yacht Leaves Tonga

p. 36 · Read in the full issue

Fx-om Our Own Correspondent

Nukualofa, Nov. 21.

r T , HE yacht Ngataki left here for Auck * land on November 6 with the skipper owner Mr. J. W. Wray and three of his companions. The fourth, Mr. D. Powell, stayed at Nukualofa.

On board as passengers were Mr. and Mrs. R. Donaldson with their children.

Mr. Donaldson is Officer-in-Charge of the Tongan Audit Department, and he has proceeded to Auckland on six months’ leave. The Ngataki was to call at Sunday Island en route to New Zealand.

Mr. Alfred F. Butler, of the research department of the United Fruit Co., Boston, U.S.A., arrived in Fiji by the Mariposa on November 18 to make in vestigations into the Sigatoka banana disease.