"We have discovered that the New Zealand boys have the old sea trait of their fathers ,and that they make quite as good sailors as any boys at sea," remarked Commander Hooper says the Poverty Bay Herald) at the reception held at Gisborne a few days ago; adding that he was not saying this 'because he was in New Zealand, but because he had found it so. They were not all angels, of course, but he might look round the room and ask who were in their boyhood?
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 March 1915, Page 3
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