Ornant Becomes Ie Aro
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But Jinx Remains
Messrs, jagger & harvey Cook Is. trading schoone Ornant, frequently in th news since purchased two years ag< it still dogged by misfortune.
On December 3, with her nam changed to Te Aroa, she sailed fror Rarotonga for Auckland. Sh was apparently unreported unt: January 13. Then a small vesse picked her up in the Bay of Plent3 NZ, with her propeller shaft broker most of her sails blown out, ani Captain Donald McLeod and hi native crew of five all but starving and on the last of their heavily rationed fresh-water supplies. Sh had been drifting almost helplessl; for two weeks. The towing craf broke down outside Tauranga, an< both vessels were saved from thi rocks only by the timely arrival o another towing craft.
With her anchor finally down ii Tauranga, all worries seemed over However, shortly after going ashore Captain McLeod was hastily re called to the schooner. She hac dragged her anchor and fouled th( moorings of another yacht.
Mr. Larry Dwyer; Acting Directoi of Agriculture Department, return* shortly to Papua-N. Guinea, aftei sick leave.