DRIFTING BOTTLE.
NEARLY THREE YEARS IN SEA,
(Received 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. A bottle picked up on Noosa beach, Tewantin, contained a paper bearing the words: "Thrown overboard on 4/6/30 by the master, Captain T. V. Hill, of the Niagara, in longitude 175 east, latitude 30 south. Finder please return to the United States Hydrographic Department, Washington." The document has been sent to the American Consul at Brisbane. The position given is 200 miles north of North Cape, New Zealand. Captain Hill stated that although the bottle was picked up only 1000 miles west of where it was dropped it might have been drifting all over the Tasman.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 87, 13 April 1933, Page 7
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109DRIFTING BOTTLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 87, 13 April 1933, Page 7
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