A Japanese Launch.
" -.V.' 1 ! » JTliet Japanese apply one of their many " pretty ways " to the launching*okJflbipsv They use no wine. The b&ng over the ship's prow a large pasteboard cage full of birds, and the moment the ship is afloat a ma* palls a Biting, when the cage opinfi" and the birds fly away, xriaidttg the air alive with music and the whirr of wings. The idea is that the birds thus welcome the ship as she beguia her career as a thing of life. .S>^ ; --' ■■ • ;■•■ -•■
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Manawatu Herald, 12 January 1895, Page 3
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87A Japanese Launch. Manawatu Herald, 12 January 1895, Page 3
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