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POET'S PIANO TELLS OF HOME. COOK'S COMMITTEE MEETING. LONDON, April ?.— Commander Laurence David, who in 1922 led an expedition of 14 Loughborough schoolboys to Tahiti, has returned broken in heart. He admits that life in the South Seas is not the idyllic: existence pictured in storybooks. It was only a piano found in a deserted bungalow on the vanilla plantation of Rupert Brooke, the poet, that helped to alleviate the sting of shattered illusions. The headmaster of Loughborough school asserts that he' had doubted the success of the project when one of the adventurers, who returned from Lisbon, said that a committee meeting had been necessary to decide who should cook the dinner aboard' the lugger, the Wild Goose. Three of the lad's remain at Tahiti. ——n—mm rnmrn ««»
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16406, 12 April 1924, Page 9
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130SADDENED IDEALISTS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16406, 12 April 1924, Page 9
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