As the mutton bird season is approaching the following humorous little incident may be of interest to readers (says the “Southland News”). It happened way back in the 'eighties when that onetime well-known navigator, Captain Joseph Rodariques, of Riverton, was carrying a contingent of mutton jirders from Colac Bay ami Riverton in his equally well-known ketch Grace, to the Titi Islands. When off Mason’s Bay, al the Lack of Stewart Island, "Joo” noticed a heavy squall approaching, and ordered all tho women mid children below. He also instructed some of the men tn sil on the hatches. The old Grace shipped a sea, one of the hatches was washed away, and through the opening appeared the head of an old Maori woman, shaking her first at tho skipper, who was manfully struggling with the lillor. The wahinc angrily exclaimed. “Lock here. Joe Roderiques, if you drown us, I summons you when we get back to Riverton."
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 125, 24 February 1928, Page 12
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156Untitled Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 125, 24 February 1928, Page 12
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