GRACE DARLING OAK
GALLANT FEAT COMMEMORATED.
SHIPWRECKED SAILORS SAVED.’
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
London, Nov; 25.
The first Grace Darling oak tree, of which similar specimens are being planted in British ports throughout the world in the next four years to commemorate her deed on September 7, 1838, when with her father she rescued survivors of the Forfarshire wreck, was planted in Battersea Park with impressive ceremonial.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1934, Page 7
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