Small Ships News
p. 120 · Read in the full issue
Auckland, Oct. 6..
THE well-known 94 ft. ketch Nes Golden Hind, originally buii for Mr. H. R. Jenkins, « Auckland, and since owned succes sively by the NZ Works Depan ment and then Messrs. A. Rusdel and R. Baker, of Auckland, wv recently acquired by a Chines syndicate in Papeete, under Mae shall Aid, at the reported price $26,000 US—not excessive at pn sent-day values.
The New Golden Hind thus g® to join the schooner Tagua in tlf French Oceania inter-island traoj Both vessels, in Government se; vice during the war, wandered ! over the South Pacific-; —taking su/ vey parties to isolated islands, lann ing Coast Watchers in the RNa controlled area, taking supplies lonely weather stations, and finalh transporting the bodies of soi< from such lonely islands back central military cemeteries. M very long ago the ashes of Cole, Master of the New Gold) Hind through most of the w years, were scattered off the madecs by a vessel of the RNS It is fitting that the graceful HU should go to join her war-tn: companion in Papeete, one of t last havens of the auxiliary sail:! vessel in the Pacific.
The loss of the Pacific tram freighter Alexander and the C( - Is trader Siren, in the Cooks centlv, is happily offset by ner that Mr. W. Thomas, of —formerly owner of the Huia, i in New Caledonian waters so; months ago—is now en route s New Zealand with the 350-ton J.
Lolk, from Denmark. It is belies, that the vessel—to be re-nam T lir ie mav be seen round Islands in the not distant futurx From Wellington comes word tf Mr. Willie Schutz, lately Seco; Mate/Radio Operator m the M and then the Alexander, is i preparing the 40 ft. ketch Soubrx for delivery to the Cook Is. whl it is understod, she will enter , inter-island trade and pern, partly fill the gap left by the of the Siren. , .
The Soubrette spent a short t in the Cooks, two years agcttto the ownership of Mr. Don W. formerly of the Weather OtC Aitutaki, and now of Cerrs Weather Office. W elll^i^ tended abandoning theWeasj Office to enter island later changed his mind.