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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1949Vol. XX, No. 3

Overseas Yachts in Apia

p. 46 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent APIA, September 19.

TWO overseas yachts have recently called at Apia, Western Samoa, in the course of Pacific cruises.

The yacht, Cariad I, arrived on August 29 from Pago Pago. The owner, A. U.

Flitton, is a South African from Cape town. The Cariad II left on Septemoei 2.

The Australian yacht, Kurewa III, arrived on September 10 from Pago Page on her return trip from Honolulu after she had taken part in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from Los Angeles to Hono lulu. She left Apia on September 17 on her return trip to Australia.

A son, John Lionel, was born to Mr, and Mrs. Lionel Mansfield, of Kokopo New Guinea, at the Rabaul Hospital or September 2. Mrs. Mansfield was formerly Miss Marjorie Allen, oi Gilalum Plantation, Kokopo.