MENACE TO SHIPPING
The Marino Department received a telegram from the maater of the Bteamer Kowhai at Napier yesterday etating that on the way up tho coast frotn Picton , hia vessels passed, in lat. 40 deg. ' 56 mm Bouth and long. l? 0 deg. 33i mm. east, a mass of submerged wreckage, with 'six feel of broken mast protruding from the water. The sea was too 'rough to launch a boat to make a closer inspection. The position given works out at some miles off Castlepoint, and tho wreckage is apparently the eamo as that sighted several times about Christmas time. The ."> wreckage was then reported by those who sighted it as dangerous to navigation. A close investigation would probably reveal • tho nature and perhaps the identity of the wreck.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 3
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130MENACE TO SHIPPING Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 3
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