ABERDEEN BOY'S TRIP
Commemoration oi Otaki's Figbt With Moewe HOLIDAY IN DOMINION (Received 29, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 28. An Aberdeen schoolboy will have a month's stay in New Zealand in partial commemoration of the New Zealand Shipping Company's Otaki's fiight in wartime ^with the German raider Moewe. The reiatiyes of the late Captain Bissett Smith, V.C., commander of the Otaki, in memory of the fight, prespnted Robert Gordon' s college, Aherdeen, where Captain Bissett Smith was fducated, a shield which is to be presented anntially to the boy pre-eminent in charactar, leadersliip and athletics. The shipping company supplemented this with a free return trip. The first winner is the school captain, who sails by the Rangitata on June 24.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 113, 29 May 1937, Page 5
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