OBJECTIONS IGNORED
VOYAGERS TO DOMINION
CON VERTED LI PEBOA T
(Reed. August 21, 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 19
Despite opposition of the town council. Mr. George Pope and his wife and three children sailed yesterday from Chichester aboard a converted lifeboat to seek work in New Zealand
A councillor named Keates declared that the boat was unsafe as the open cockpit would be flooded in rough weather.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 21 August 1939, Page 5
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