TOLL OF THE SEA

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26651, 9 February 1952, Page 3

TOLL OF THE SEA

fltapwrecks, New’ Zealand Disasters, 1795-1950. Bv C. W. N. Ingram and J- 0. Wheatley. A. H. and A. W. »eed. 520 pp. Since this work was first published ®i936 the authors have continued ® e ir research into New Zealand's as well as noting those which **** occurred since then, and have Woduced a revised and improved which carries the account to ®d of 1950. The last entry defers the Ranui, the passenger launch Recked near Tauranga with the loss vm? !jy es on December 28 of that S - The book is profusely illustraend to the alphabetical index has iaS a locality index, a big Everywhere there is the care which the authors Wau Ju- n to he accurate, and to J*.® this work as exhaustive as posery vessel wrecked on New jjJ’Ud shores, from the smallest jUM cutter or fishing boat to the mu. liner is faithfully recorded—surprising total ‘it is. The toM k 01 the bigger disasters are well new.® some detail The authors in a nm-? that “a book of this sort •®c» ■> as a work of referrornL,. That may be so: but it is a how what was intended as »n^,® lnute hrowse can develop into MBUr of absorbed reading.