STORY FROM DUNEDIN
UNUSUAL SIGHT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, 2fth June.
It was reported to the police and telegraph officials to-day by Mr. A. C. Armstrong, of Anderson's Bay, that at 11 o'clock this morning he sighted an iceberg due south of Dunedin, and apparently slightly north of The Nuggets, where it would be in the track of shipping.
Mr. Armstrong described the 'berg, which he first saw with the naked eye, and later through a pair of. fieldglasses, as equal in size to the New Zealand Express Company's offices, one of the largest buildings in Dunedin. With the sun shining on it it had a pinkish hue. ' ■
Mr. Armstrong's statement is supported by two other persons who viewed the iceberg through • glasses, and it also-gains support from the fact that a heavy snowfall was experienced in Dunedin to-night. .
The appearance of the iceberg so far north is said to be entirely unprecedented, and shipping men state that one has never before.been observed from the New Zealand coast. The lightkeeper at The ■ Nuggets did not observe it, but said it was possible that the 'berg had passed during the night and disappeared round one of the headlands of the coast. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 10
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