CORRESPONDENCE DEVON WRECK
TO THB EDITOR. Sir,— On behalf of the Italian fishermen resident at Rona Bay I wish to most strongly protest against the references implied in your report of last evening in connection with the wrecked steamer Devon. The remarks about fishing boats prowling about the wreck and having to [be watched would lead people to think we are a gang of thieves waiting to loot the steamer. If this is the New Zealand custom we havo not descended to it yet and we leave that occupation to your own countrymen. It might just as weli be said that the Awaroa and other steamers were prowling about ready to thieve what they could as to throw that insinuation at us. Allow me to conclude that we gain our living honestly, and often, enough risk our lives in doing so, and as for pilfering we ourselves have had to endure a good deal of this from your own countrymen. In justice to the Italian fishermen at Rona Bay I ask you to publish this protest.— l am, etc.,, GUISEPPE MEO.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 9
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