THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
A NAVAL VISIT. A Dutch naval squadron in New Zealand waters is certainly a novelty and quite an agreeable one withal. A Dutch fleet in the Medway in the time of Charles 11 was also a novelty, and a most unpleasant one. The naval history of England finds some of its richest chapters in sea fights between the Dutch and the English. Great seamen there were on both sides— Tromp, Blake, de Ruyter—admirals who went their way but whose names refuse to perish. The Dutch have the seafaring, instinct in their, veins even as have the British. In the seventeenth century their navigators were everywhere. They were the discoverers of Australia and our own land.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1930, Page 4
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119THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1930, Page 4
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