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SERVED IN “GREAT EASTERN” MR. WILLIAM CUMING (Special to THE 9UN.J CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. William Cuming celebrated their golden wedding at their home at St. Albans to-day. Mr. Cuming claims two distinctions: He ia the sole survivor of the complement of the Great Eastern, the won-der-ship of its time. He is also the oldest Free Mason in New Zealand. He was born in 1840 at Totnes, in Devon, and served his time as cannon maker with the firm of Sir Thomas Whitworth, Ltd., which is now known as Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, Ltd. In 1865 he formed one of the crew of the steamship Great Eastern, which in that year laid the Atlantic cable between America and Ireland. This was considered one of the great events of the century. Aboard the ship on that occasion was a notable contingent of the world’s scientists, including the late Lord Kelvin.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 3
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