IN BEER BOTTLE.
MESSAGE FROM TROOPSHIP. WASHED UP IX NORTH. (By TtMoyraph.— Own OrrespondPiil.) CHRISTCHIT.CIT, this day. For two months tides and currents in the Tasman .Sea carried to and fro a bottle, containing u message from two men of the First Echelon Divisional Supply Column who those this means of sending, greetings tu Christeliitrch from their troopship. The men were Driver ,T. Hetherington. 16. Abberley Crescent. St. Albans, and Driver F. L. Gibson, S. Halkett Street. Both are married men. The bottle was picked up on Bnvlev's Beach, west eoa>t of North Auckland, by Mr. C. L. Cutler, Clerk of the Court at Dargaville, and reccntlv of the Magistrate's Court staff, Tim'aru. In the bottle was the following pencilled message: "Joe Hetherington, 7518, X.Z.A.S.C; F. L. Gibson, 7338, X.Z.A.S.C. Good luck to Christohurch, Xew Zealand. Send to 'Star-Sun.'" Mr. Cutler, who has been in Dargaville only a few months following his transfer on promotion from Timaru. forwarded the message to the "StarSun," explaining that he was on holiday at Bayley's Beach when he picked up the sealed beer bottle containing the message.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 94, 20 April 1940, Page 10
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183IN BEER BOTTLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 94, 20 April 1940, Page 10
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