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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 July 1940Vol. X, No. 12

One Way of Escaping the Gloom

p. 24 · Read in the full issue

of War

INTENDING to make a holiday cruise lasting five months around the South Sea Islands, including Tahiti, four men left Auckland (New Zealand) on May 30 in the 30ft. ketch “Waiparu”. The party comprised the owners of the yacht, Mr. Vernon Brinckman (29) and Mr.

Rupert Brinckman (27) of Ponsonby (Auckland) as well as Mr. Edward Hay (38) of Glendowie, and Mr, James Downes (40) of Ponsonby. They are all single.

Mr. R. Munro, Jnr., recently left Papua to enlist in the A.I.P.