“CLIPPER” SHIPS
The word Clipper is on everyone’s lips just now. as it was in days gone by when sailing ships brought the annual wool "clip" from Australia. But the word Clipper did not only apply to sailing ships in the wool trade. There were the famous lea clippers, 100, such as Hie Cutty Sark, sailing to and from China. And who does not remember reading “Clipper of the Seas" by the enthralling Jules Verne? The Americans have another explanation for lhe word 'Clipper, meaning flying-boal. In the days of gigs and trotters a klepper meant a fast-trol-ling horse, and this name was given to speedy little pilot boats which could be hired in Chespeake Bay, and this word became gradually changed into clipper.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 6
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124“CLIPPER” SHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 6
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