WRECKAGE WASHED ASHORE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 5

WRECKAGE WASHED ASHORE.

' A quantity of wreckage oanie ashore' 1 a.;. Ruakaka. consisting of a main boom ! forty-tihree feet long, a gaff twenty-sis I feet long. three double twelve-inch blocks and four single block* of the same «ize: wo of the latter axe spliced in tibe en da iof two steel wrirc irepes of about, ten fa,r.honis «ach, with clip hooks at the end. A torn sail, with must hoops, was attached. A snort length of 3sin. Manila rope eJeo came ashore. The blocks are nearly new; the *pare show signs that 'they ha<ve been in use for some time, but are perfectly sound. The wreckage does not appear to have been long in the water. The Collector of Cusboans, as receiver of wrecks, has taken possession. Inquiries made locally do not tend to ■t'hxov say li<rht on lie origin of ■tßut I •wreckage. The length of the boom in-mjoa-t-fi that the sailer from which ii I came muf't have bean a fairly )a<rge one. I There are no schoonevfr known to be in ; tbc vicinity at. pref-tait. thoug'i a. nmni her of uc:>ws are reported to be thai-.-laiout!.