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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19250, 14 August 1924, Page 8

H.M.S. Victory has been saved. “Saved for all time” was the phrase used by Admiral Sturdeo to the Society for Nautical Research. Ho said that up to date £78,000 had accrued to the fund from subscriptions, and interest on sums deposited at the bank during the past two years had amounted to £2500. The interest more than covered the expenses of collection, which were only £2145. The Admiralty, he added, had helped in every way to get the work of restoration done as quickly as possible. He was now negotiating with them for the provision of a museum, in which could ho placed the Victory barge and various relics and records from the ship. Up to the present alterations had b;«en carried out on me prow and stern of the Victory. The upper works were being dealt with, and arrangements were being made for installing a complete battery of guns. By the end of the year they would want to acquire, by loan or by some other means, some of the furniture which was in Nelson’s cabin at the Battle of Trafalgar. They wore going to make the ship exactly as it was at that time.

One in nine of the 110,000,000 citizens of the United States owns a motor oar. In Canada the boon is shared by ono person in 18. In England, Scotland, and Wales the figures aro something like one in 100.