A "FIND" AT PEGASUS BAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 751, 25 February 1910, Page 4

A "FIND" AT PEGASUS BAY.

V- : .: LLFEJ3BLTS; f, ■ ■-/■■H;; ■■ :..■ EVIDENTLY.TRAVELLED .FAS.':! !t ; ■■■(By-' Teießraph.—Press' Association.)::•..:. ■ ■':'',...-■ •'■':■.;"..''■ Christchurch; February 21! '-/. : [ , : .Mr: Neil;Johansen,: of .Inwoo'd's:-Road,: Burwood, reports having made' an unusual find when walking' along the .north New •:.; Brighton'beaoh v (Pegasus this: afternoon, this find being a number of ,ships. .• life-belts. Mr. Johansen states that he f is' in. the habit of walking along, .the. beach almost daily,' and sometimes; fishes • as'i far<'north, as -the- mouth of the Wai- :. makariri. , This ■ afternoon, about, three o'clock, he' saw a life-belt in the sea,;but did not take much notice ofit...A littld.-: further on; however^ , he' came upon two, V .more, and,- by the. time he- had.reaohed;:: tho-Waimakariri,,ho had picked; up four-: :; ceen.- : ■.::"■' ■■■• : - ■/. ■ '■.-■■'■■■'■'. .: v ';'.■ ;,'.,

He collected them, took them 'inland, and stacked them .on-some barrels, out of. reach, of the sea".';,. On ■his l .way. back tpV-.New!. Brighton, -he" picked..up..-seven, or more, and.these.he also.placed.out of: the roach"of. the sea.: : . , 1^..; , ., ,

The life-belts (appeared ..to .have, been in: the sea for somo time,, as soma of. them.; had mussels attached; to ,them. One of those taken froni tho ; sea was unopened, but the remainder.- w.crotopened, : ;as -;if they . had -been: used.V Some ' were made of. cotton canvas, and a ; fe\y of: ordinary hemp canvas, and a. lot: of - them \- \yere striped blue: and white.,, ; One; has: on :it : either a number' or initials, but, on account of its condition from .being in the' BCa .a .long.tinip,. Mr. ; Johansen. was ;Un-. able to determine, what the 'marks: arc, though they appear to be letters'"B G" : with "P" over: them: - v •.'?,'..,,

Tivo kinds of. life-belts are among ■ those picked up. One kind has' arm-holes nnd a loop to fit the shoulders/ whilst the ( other kind has a double row of. small corks iil front. Tho canvas ones are in good .order,: but it; is evident;-:.:however, that,-all. have Vitravellcd' some'distance. Mr.- Johnnseh iw others! in the-walcr, and , hopes- to (jet thoiii to-morrow. He also hopes that:l;hose which,-he got to-day will bo. dry.enifeigh to r iuorrow ;to-pcrinit of any marks beuig deciphered^!;. : ■„:,":,