YOUTHFUL INGENUITY
Some of the boys who live near thi? JRiver Avon in Christchurch have evolved 'a quaint style of naval architecture (says an exchange). Taking an old piece c£ sis-foot, corrugated iron, they double it endways, put in stem and stern-post, clinch the ends with nails, and put in a spreader amidships, and so- make a double-ended canoe. Two of these are jointed at bow and stern by crosspieces, and the result is supposed to ba a very good imitation of the double canoe in which the ancestors of the Maoris came to Ao-tea-roa. £hey sport a sail made out of a sugar sack, or part of a blind. .A plentiful supply of putty and lots of tar make the craft fairly watertight. With two little chaps not more than five years of age, one in each bow, and two boys of double that age, one in each stern, using paddles made of square box lids, and the sail drawing (spasmodically), one of thesa odd-looking catamarans makes venturesome, voyages each evening.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 42, 19 February 1931, Page 4
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172YOUTHFUL INGENUITY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 42, 19 February 1931, Page 4
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