FROM THE WAIRARAPA.
CAKGO OR SCRAP METAL.
Another cargo of metal from the wreck of the Union Company's Wairarapa was brought to town to-day by the cutter Oceanic. The metal consisted of copper piping, gun metal fittings, and lead piping. Every piece was covered with marine growth and incrustations. Among the wreckage which 'has lain at the bottom of the sea at the Great Barrier for the past twenty-nine years some rather unexpected and fragile things are found. On the last trip to the wreck the diver found a couple of cake or fruit dishes in metal and also an earthenware coup-plate which had not a scratch on it nor a chip taken out of it. Mr. Year intends returning to the wreck shortly, and it is expected that about twenty tons of -metal still remain to be retrieved.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 3 December 1923, Page 7
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139FROM THE WAIRARAPA. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 3 December 1923, Page 7
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