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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1950Vol. XX, No. 10

For Cairns

p. 85 · Read in the full issue

Lone Voyager Sails From Suva For Cairns

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Suva, May 1.

SAILING alone, Mr. Patrick David Dil lon, a young Irishman who came to Fiji last December, left Suva in his 30 ft. yacht, Tara, on April 29 bound for Cairns, Queensland, which he hopes to reach in about two weeks. The Tara has no engine but carries water and pro visions sufficient for a much longer voy age than that to Queensland. Well fitted-out and Marconi-rigged as a cut ter, the Tara was built at Suva this year by Mr. Frank Woodhouse to Mr.

Dillon’s order.