Final Identification
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THE ketch at Noumea was definitely identified late in March as the “Taipan.” She will leave soon on a world cruise with Hawaii as the next port of call.
The father of a member of the crew stated that the vessel was taken to sea hurriedly from Brisbane after a mem ber of the syndicate of owners had taken out an injunction to nrevent the craft leaving Australian waters.
The “Taipan” was posted missing on the Australian coast, and it was at first denied that the vessel at Noumea was the ‘“Taipan.”
The ship in Noumea Harbour.