BISCUITS FOUND ON BEACH
Lifeboat Rations 15 Years Old (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 29. For the last few days a Lower Hutt family has been entertaining afternoon tea visitors on 15-year-old biscuits—biscuits they found on a lonely beach near Cape Palliser on Anzac Day. Mr and Mrs C. Woods, of Whites Line East, took their family for a drive to Whangamoana Beach, a little-frequehted spot east of Lake Ferry. It was their nine-year-old son, Ken, who found the first tin. labelled “lifeboat and raft biscuits.” Among the seaweed and driftwood they soon collected 24 tins —72 dozen biscuits in all. The labels indicated the biscuits had been packed in 1943. and had been manufactured in Wellington. Packed in 18oz airtight tins, they were perfectly preserved and edible. Perhaps cast up from the wreckage of some ship sunk during the war. they were an apt reminder of what Anzac Day commemorated. Also appropriate Mr Woods’s occupation of canister sealer.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28573, 30 April 1958, Page 22
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