PITCAIRN ISLANDER
VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND DESCENDANT OF CHRISTIAN [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Thursday A direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutineers of the Bounty and founder of the colony at Pitcairn Island, Mr. Parkins Christian, arrived at "Wellington to-day by the Kemuera. He joined the liner at Pitcairn, where she called on her way from London, via Panama. Mr. Christian has come to visit his son, a pupil at the Longburn mission school. A largo dark man, standing about 6ft. 3in., he appeared ill at ease in the formal garments of civilisation after the freedom of his tropic isle. He said that he was of the ,fifth generation since Fletcher Christian, whose descendants now comprised a large family.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23156, 30 September 1938, Page 14
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