MR. MASSEY'S JUBILEE.
FIFTY YEARS IN NEW ZEALAND. Telegrams of congratulation,reminded the Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) on Saturday that just fifty years had elapsed since he first set foot in New Zealand. Mr. Massey, then a boy of fourteen, landed in Auckland on December 11, 1870. Ho had come from Ulster, and had made the voyage from England in the ship City of Auckland, a vessel of fewer than 800 tons This sailing ship bad made a good voyage, but luck deserted her in New Zealand waters She caught fire at the Auckland wharf end had to be sunk in the harbor. 1 She was refloated, but later was wrecked on the beach at Otaki, whore her ''bones" are still to be seen.
Two fellow passengers, whose congratulatory telegrams reached the Prime Minister on Saturday, -a-ire Captain Bone '(Marine Superintendent of the U.B.S. Company) and the Rev. W J. Williams (ex-pre»ident of the Methodist Conference). Mr. Massey had been 33 years in New Zealand when he became Leader of the Opposition in 1903
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1920, Page 5
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173MR. MASSEY'S JUBILEE. Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1920, Page 5
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