Tahiti Notes
pp. 77-78 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Yacht Mana Natra Arrives
At Papeete
Papeete, Dec. 1.
ON Monday, November 5, Captain A.
W. (Harry) Littchen sailed the 37foot yacht Mana Natra, of which he is owner, into Papeete lagoon, and there cast anchor after a voyage from Honolulu lasting 34 days.
Captain Littchen is an experienced small-craft navigator who has had an adventurous career in many capacities. At one time he was an officer aboard the old Oceanic steamer Sonoma.
Captain Littchen built his double ender ketch himself while homesteading at Kihei, on the island of Maui, in Hawaii.
It is his intention to dispose of the Mana Natra in Tahiti, to acquire a suitable property there and to engage in chicken raising.
As crew members he is accompanied on the present voyage by A 1 Borgerie, assis tant manager of the Moana Hotel at Waikiki, Honolulu, and by Miss Kathleen Peterson, former resident of Juneau, Alaska. Miss Peterson, who long had planned to visit the South Seas, after a visit to Hawaii of 18 months, is now arranging to remain in Tahiti some time to engage in writing. ♦ * *
Tribute To Late Lea Carlson
ON July 28 an automobile parked on Papeete wharf broke free from its brakes and plunged into the waters of the lagoon. That same day, to the regret of her many friends, there passed away in France, Miss Lea Carlson, be loved daughter of Louis Carlson of the same city.
On the following October 29 the same automobile that had made the ominous dive, beautifully decorated with Tiare blossoms —the love emblems of Tahiti — awaited on the same wharf the arrival of the steamship Ville d’Amiens, which, coming from France, bore to her native land, the casket containing the remains of the Island’s lamented daughter.
A concourse of sad relatives and friends followed the automobile and, at the door of her former home, the mother of the deceased received the flower-laden casket.
Next morning a large procession of mourners followed the funeral cortege to its interment at Pa-Uranie cemetery. • ♦ •
Rumoured Withdrawal Of
Steamers From Sydney
IT is reported here that the Ville d’Amiens, of the Messagerie Mari times, will be the last steamer of that
line to call at Sydney. The Sagittaire, due to arrive at Papeete in December, will go as far as Noumea and Port Villa and then will return, instead of pro ceeding to Australia. » * »
New Tourist Bureau In Tahiti
IN order to make provision for the in flux of new visitors to Tahiti, anti cipated in response to the drive now under way for that purpose, a new Tourist Bureau has been organised in Papeete.
Elected officers of the bureau are M.
Van Den Broeck d’Obrenon, president; M.
R. Solari, vice-president; M. Coppenrath, secretary; and M. Wilmet, treasurer. For convenience of visitors an Information Desk has been established near the wharf.
In view of the above, Mr. Oscar G.
Nordman, who hitherto has generously placed the facilities of his office at the disposition of tourists and others seek ing information regarding French Oceania —and whose services in this way has ren dered current the saying, “Ask Oscar, he knows,’’—will in future retire from these activities and confine himself to the de
velopment of his own business. Inquiries regarding Tahiti should be directed to the Bureau de Tourisme, Papeete. * * *
New Son To M. And Mme.
Marchesseau
Congratulations To. M. And Mme.
G. Marchesseau, of Papeete, on the happy occasion of the birth of their son, Patrick (October 31). M. G. Mar chesseau is secretary to the Governor of French Oceania.