EXHIBITION INCIDENT
FIFTY-SIX AFTER Fifty-six years after lie had served as third mate in the three-masted sailing ship Dunedin in ISS2, when she carried the first consignment of Now Zealand lamb and mutton to England, Major Valentino Baker, now at tin* ago of 79 living in England, had his earlier days recalled to him recently when he visited the Now _ Zealand Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow. Ho was seen by the manager, Mr. J. 11. Hall, standing admiring a mural painting of tlie ship on one of the walls of the pavilion and ho revealed his own associations with her. The Dunedin loft Port Chalmers with the first consignment of frozen meat in February, 1882, and in 1890, while carrying another shipment from the same port, she disappeared without a trace.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23117, 16 August 1938, Page 10
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133EXHIBITION INCIDENT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23117, 16 August 1938, Page 10
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