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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9062, 10 April 1908, Page 3

Many are the devices employed to break the tedium of the voyage on Homeward bound ships, remarks the Dunedin "Evening Star." A passenger by a steamer which recently left New Zealand shores was struck by the workmanlike manner in which a baby on board disposed of the contents of its bottle, and the idea occurred to him to get up a match. Several grown-up male passengers entered the lists, and at the baby's appointed meal time were supplied with feeding bottles filled with claret and water. The man who arranged the event went nap on rhe baby, and his confidence was not m.splaced, for the little one had its bottle finished by the time the others were abuut half-way through.

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