"Bounty" Relics

Taken From Pitcairn Island

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete, Mar. 24.

TPHE American yacht Yankee arrived * recently at Papeete from somewhere or other, via Pitcairn Island. The owner is proudly displaying a part of the rud der including the gudgeon ■ — from the Bounty as well as the vice belonging to that historic ship.

The reaction this achievement has aroused in the minds of bystanders is why institutions such as the Mitchell Library, at Sydney, and the Museum of the Admiralty at London have allowed these relics to fall into alien hands. For over a century British ships have called at Pitcairn and yet it has been left to a casual visitor to mop up these irreplace able souvenirs.