DUNDONALD CASTAWAYS' EXHIBITS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9001, 11 December 1907, Page 3

DUNDONALD CASTAWAYS' EXHIBITS.

An interesting and instructive exhibition of relics from the lonely island on which they were castaways was given by some of the survivors of the wrecked barque Dundonald in the New Art Gallery, Dunedin, on Saturday. The principal object of interest was, of course, the frail skeleton of a boat made from scrub sticks, crooked in shape and irregular in length, in which some of the survivors went to sea and succeeded in reaching the depot where food supplies and other necessaries were obtained. The sticks were bound together mainly by pieces of rope, and in some instances by pieces of wire, and the boat speaks eloquently of the ingenuity and resourcefulness which man can bring to his aid under adverse and trying circumstances where life and death are in the balance. In addition to the boat there were exhibits of a spoon made from rata wood, a rude wooden hook or prong on which meat was hung to be smoked, a solitary drinking cup made of canvas, and also a "bailer" for the frail boat, a tobacco pouch in which rope ,-varn (as a substitute for tobacco), carried, needles, etc., made from wing bones of birds, sealskin caps and slippers (some of the former being Tam-o'-Shanter and Robinson Crusoe shape), a blanket made of albatross skins, and 9 wel'-executed commemorative tablet showing the Dundonald and the island, the ship and land being brought into view by piercing holes in a piece of zinc. The proceeds of the exhibition went to the aid of the men who made the exhibits.