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

Yacht On Leisurely Cruise

p. 71 · Read in the full issue

rpHE 94-feet schooner-rigged pleasure X yacht “New Golden Hind”, owned by Mr. H. R. Jenkins, which left Auckland in May, is now on a leisurely cruise which embraces the ports of Tonga, Pi.u, Samoa and Cook Islands.

In addition to the crew and Mr.

Jenkins, master, the party includes Mrs.

F. J. H. Harrison and Miss M. Culford Bell, of Auckland, Mr. W. E. Mitchell, of Nelson, and Mr. H. T. Welch, of Te Awamutu . The navigator is Mr. H.

Simpson.

Before his departure Mr. Jenkins said it was possible that his yacht would be used by an expedition headed by Mr.

Michael Lerner. the noted American ichthyotomist, and associate of the American Museum of Natural History, who studied big game fish in New Zea land waters at the beginning of last year.