Cutter "Pagan" Reaches

Auckland From Tahiti

COMPLETING a six weeks’ voyage from Tahiti, Mr. William C. Weld, of Maine, USA, reached Auckland, New Zealand, on Christmas Day in the 26-ft. double-ended cutter Pagan.

Mr. Weld set out from Panama on March 6, called at the Galapagos Islands and the Marquesas Islands, and reached Tahiti on June 18. He worked as a ship wright at Papeete until he had earned enough money to provision the Pagan for the voyage to Auckland.

Weld, who is 34, and an ex-US Navy man, did the whole 9,000-mile journey from Panama singlehanded. Later he will cross the Tasman to Sydney.

A daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Stevenson, of Suva, Fiji. Mrs.

Stevenson formerly lived in Brisbane (Q.).