Pacific Arcadia
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Mr. Briggs and His Ketch in Sydney
a KETCH named the “Pnnnpiio”
A feet long, arrived in Sydney in July after a tempestuous voyage from Ho bart. Aboard, are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Briggs ’ and two friends.
AJr. Bri |£ s 15 the gentleman who ere “ there to found 6 a kincToT model^c’otony or Pacific Arcadia. The boat, already has left Australian ports a couple of times, on the great adventure, but each time has received such a buffeting from bad weather that it has returned.
Mr. Briggs was formerly a survey
photographer with the Royal Australian Air Force. Last year, he launched the enterprise, which was called the International Goodwill Settlement; but one gathers from statements in the news papers that, while scores of people were interested in the idea, they were not very hopeful on the practical side, par ticularly in relation to finance.
Mr. Briggs says he has not abandoned the plan. After several weeks in Syd ney, the “Connella” will make a leisure ly cruise along the Queensland coast, and Mr. Briggs thinks it is possible that the boat then will go out into the Pacific, and that he may find, some where, an island on which he may found his model colony.