PERILOUS VENTURE
FAMILY LEAVES ENGLAND FOR NEW ZEALAND IN CONVERTED LIFEBOAT. • CRAFT DECLARED UNSAFE. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day. 10.5 a.m.) LONDON. August 18. Despite the opposition of the Town Council. George Pope, his wife, and three children sailed from Chichester aboard a converted lifeboat, to seek work in New Zealand. Councillor Keates declared the boat was unsafe, as the open cockpit would be flooded in rough weather.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1939, Page 7
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69PERILOUS VENTURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1939, Page 7
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