BOTTLE FOUND IN LYALL BAY
Five Years To Drift From Ireland (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 12. A bottle has travelled from Belfast to Wellington within five years. On -December 4, 1954, a five-year-old boy, Kiern Oliver McLerlean, of Clad, Port Glenone, Northern Ireland, threw into the River Clady a bottle in which his father had put his name and address. The river! then in flood, carried the bottle into the River Bann and out to sea. In September this year Kiern received from Wellington a letter containing his note, on the bottom of which was written: ‘‘Picked up in Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand, on June
8, 1959.” The unsigned note was postmarked Wellington, August 12, 1959. The story is told in the issue of September 25 of the Belfast “Weekly Telegraph.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29051, 13 November 1959, Page 21
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