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Sir David Beattie at Outward Bound

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Sir David Beattie at Outward Bound

’Governor-General Sir David Beattie puts his back into it aboard one of Outward Bound’s cutters in 1983. Governors-general have had strong ties with Outward Bound, an outdoor-pursuits organisation, since Lord Cobham helped to establish it in New Zealand in the early 1960s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1983/0631

by Stuart Ramson

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Gavin McLean, Governors and governors-general – Community duties, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33654/sir-david-beattie-at-outward-bound (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gavin McLean, published 30 January 2012.