CORONATION DELEGATES
Pitcairn Islander Joins New Zealanders BALBOA, April 17, The Arawa, bearing the New Zealand Parliamentary Coronation delegation iand the cricketers, arrived at Panama 'to-day after a pleasant voyage. De'lightful weather was esperienced on the voyage. from New Zealand, and the cricketers frequently practised during the trip and were also prominently laotive in deck sports and gymnasium i aetivities. Isolated, historie Pitcairn Island will !be represented at the Coronation by Mr. George Ypung, a great-great-grand-son of Edward Young, a midshipman on H.M.S. Bounty at the time of the mutiny. Mr. Young, who is 61 years of age, boarded the vessel at the Island, helping to row out one of the famous longboats, then sealing the ship's side on a rope like a man half his age. He was born and bred on the island and has never been further before than to Tahiti and New Zealand, the lattex visit being in 1927, when he was operated upon by Sir Donald MeGavin. He will stay in England five weeks before returning to Pitcairn.,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 7
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