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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 10

Cruising Yachts at Tahiti

p. 107 · Read in the full issue

?APEETE reports the following yacht movements; Arrived from Pacific Coast, Gemini, on April ;0: Ramona . April 30. Departed: Wanderer 111, for Sydney via islands; Sin Miedo, for Honolulu; md Viking, for New Zealand via islands, April 25. El Petal, owner Herman B. Woolworth, left Los Jigeles late in April for Tahiti via islands. (In addition to those published Isewhere in this issue).

If Mr, W. H. (“Tavua”) Johnson ; not careful, he w T ill find himself ibelled “the Grand Old Man of iji.” On April 10 he attained the reat age of 91, and —like a famous rand of liquor—he still is going xong. He is well known on his svn account; but he also is dis nguished as the sire of Mr. W. G. ‘Tui’’) Johnson, now T probably the iost active and energetic figure in ic commercial and public life of ava.