They Want To Buy The " Bounty"

The New South Wales Government is interested in Hollywood’s e-creation of the mutiny ship Bounty —and may try to buy it.

The new Bounty is MGM’s 1960 version, built in a Nova Scotia hipyard to take part in a new Bounty film, to be shot partly in ’ahiti. Marlon Brando will play Fletcher Christian.

The 1960 version is bigger than life size—llB feet, at deckline ompared with the original Bounty’s 85 feet—and she is very much nlike the original down below, where she is powered by a pair f 300-hp diesels.

She was launched in August, and the reason she was scaled-up i size was to permit a great deal of comfortable accommodation Dr the nine officers and 22 crew (see PIM, October, p. 87).

In Sydney, in November, the New South Wales Minister for ’ourist Activities, Mr. Kelly, said he would ask the State Govern lent to buy the Bounty for use as a tourist attraction in Sydney [arbour.

“Things of this nature attract the attention not only of visitors d Australia, but of Australians themselves. We are too prone to Drget these things. I think putting the Bligh ship in Sydney Harbour ; the sort of gimmick that tourists like.”

The suggestion that the Government should buy the ship orlgin lly was made by the Sydney Daily Telegraph.