SHIP BURIED IN SAND

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28420, 29 October 1957, Page 21

SHIP BURIED IN SAND

Interest Of Waikato Association “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND. October 28. An aerial photograph of Ruapuke Beach, between Raglan and Kawhia. has shown contours which are believed to indicate

the position of a ship thought to lie buried under the sand there, said Mr C. G. Hunt, of the Waikato Scientific Association.

Several expeditions, using mine detectors and specially-designed probes, have visited the beach in the last 12 months. Material partly uncovered many •, years ago and later buried by the! 1 sand has caused conjecture about • the age of this wreckage. ;! A meeting of the association to j discuss recent developments was’ held recently in Hamilton. It was reported that a brass bell recently recovered was almost 1 certain to be from this wreck. • although earlier it had "teen thought that the Tamil bell, found by the missioner Colenso. might j be linked with the mystery. 1 “Present indications are that the 1 vessel is of European origin. All! the evidence points that way and I nothing points to its being of East-‘ ern origin,” said Mr Hunt.