STARTED IN A COFFIN!
A champion oarsman who learned to row in a coffin is pictured beside this paragraph. The
sub.iect is John Matthew Jackson, stroke of New Zealand’s champion fouroar boat in 1906 and 1908, and now skipper of the Auckland tug Akaroa. Jackson learned to row in a coffin that his father won in a raffle. The casket had been ordered for a
Maori, but the dying man recovered, and promptly raffled his new possession. When Jackson, junior, started to use the coffin as a boat, his father took the gruesome craft away from him, but the embryo oarsman was so keen that he carried on his training in a trough detached from its trestles in a pig stye.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 37, 6 May 1927, Page 7
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121STARTED IN A COFFIN! Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 37, 6 May 1927, Page 7
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