"BATH-TUB SAILOR"
TRAINING AS FARMER COURSE AT LINCOLN COLLEGE A new student at Lincoln 'College, Canterbury, this year, Mr. Bertil Hjelstrom, has had a more exciting career than most young men, and also a sea experience that has fallen to tho lot of few people. In July last ho won fame by sailing for some hours in Torres Strait in a craft as strange as any ever seen —a bathtub belonging to the captain of the barque C. B. Pedersen, on which he had been an apprentice. Fitting the tub with an outrigger, ho left the ship in Torres Strait, and, reaching Darnley Island after many adventures, finally arrived at Brisbane. Mr. Hjelstrom, who came to New Zealand from Australia, has undertaken a two years' course at Lincoln College to learn farming.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22346, 18 February 1936, Page 7
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