"CRIMSON THREAD OF KIN SHIP."
Writing from London to his parents at Dunedin, recently, a young engineer, who learned his trade at Port Chalmers, mentioned a personal experience which gives the "crimson thread of kinship" theory a rather severe shake. Being his first trip to the "great city of contrasts," he naturally looked forward with pleasure to renewing acquaintances with several whom he had met at fort Chalmers. At the first opportunity he called at
the address given by one of them, but was informed by an intelligent maid that the addressee was unknown to the household. Hoping to fortify her memory a little, the caller stated that the gentleman inquired for hailed from New Zealand. That settled it. He must be somewhere else, because her employer never allowed any foreigners in the house, and the young New Zealander turned I sadly away, being for a moment in some doubt as to his own nationality.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 4
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155"CRIMSON THREAD OF KIN SHIP." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 4
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