BEACHCOMBING AT WELLINGTON
Lyall Bay Man Finds Sovereigns In Box (New Zeaiana Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 12. For more than 20 years Mr W. J. Renfree, a Lyall Bay resident, has been collecting driftwood on the beach. He is known locally as “Beachcomber No. 1” and he has good reasons for adopting as his motto: “It pays to beach comb.” His beachcombing paid one morning towards the end of May last year when he found 89 gold sovereigns, 27 half sovereigns, 20odd silver coins, including a crown piece and a gold watch and chain. This treasure was inside a corroded metal box Mr Renfrew found on Lyall Bay beach after a violent storm. He left the box on the beach and stumbled across it again some days later. This time he took it home and opened it. After a long investigation by the authorities, Mr Renfrew has been advised officially that the box and its contents—worth several hundred pounds—are his. The coins date from 1817 to 1839.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28534, 13 March 1958, Page 12
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