There is an interesting history attachod to tho armchair •in which the hairman of the Wellington Education Board presides over the meetings in the board room, remarks the Dominion. Its story is fold in the inscription on the silver plate let into the panel at the top of the chair, which says,- “This chair is made from oak taken from Noah’s Ark, formerly tin American vessel, which stranded on the Hi mil ton foreshore in RAO. and now lies' buried under the Bank of 'New Zealand, LambUui quay.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 16
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