BOUNTY DAY
Celebration In Auckland (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 12. Descendants of the H.M.S. Bounty mutineers and other Pitcairn islanders who helped colonise Norfolk Island 66 years after the mutiny, celebrated Bounty Day on Saturday. More than 200 guests were at a gathering to celebrate Bounty Day, the date in 1856 when the entire Pitcairn Island population was transferred to Norfolk Island because of disease and famine in the island the mutineers colonised in 1790.
One of the representatives of the Nobbs family, Mr H. S. Nobbs, a retired marine engineer, had been on holiday in New Zealand with his wife and delayed his departure to be present. Three generations of Fletcher Christian’s descendents were at the gathering, including Mrs S. W. Lawson, mother of thq, quintuplets born in Auckland last year, and the organiser of the celebration, Mr C. R. Christian, of Mount Albert.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 14
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146BOUNTY DAY Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 14
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