Ngataki's Owner Again On

A Pacific Cruise

MR. JOHNNY WRAY who, in the 30’s built himself a yacht from drift wood salvaged from around Auck land Harbour, and sailed the Pacific in her, has reached Tonga in another ship which he has called “Waihate.”

“Ngataki,” his first yacht, after carry ing her owner on many adventures—in cluding a trans-Tasman race—was wrecked. Mr. Wray wrote a book about “Ngataki” (“Vagabonds of the South Seas”), which was published in London during the war. Not many copies of the book were distributed and a Nazi blitz destroyed the rest. It was proposed, some time ago, that the book be repub lished. In the meantime, the author in a new boat—ketch-rigged with an auxi liary motor—is making a leisurely Pacific cruise, lone-handed.

Two young stowaways were discovered shortly after the “Aorangi” sailed from Suva on June 10. The ship stopped out side the reef and the pair were returned by launch. Returning to Fiji in the ship “Wairuna” are two young men who stowed away at Suva when the vessel was on her way to Vancouver.