FOUND ON THE BEACH
A Bell Block fanner reported on Saturday that a steel cylindrical object with a brass cap that might be connected with a fuse had been . washed up on the beach. The collector of Customs at New Plymouth, Mr. J.M. O'Reilly, accompanied by Lieutenant R. G. A. Farnell, New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps, who is on | leave at New Plymouth, subsequently \ made an inspection. The cylinder was brought to New Plymouth but whether it is an impro- j vised anchor or a missile of destruc- 1 tion has not yet been determined, reports the "Taranaki Daily News." The arrival of the cylinder gave rise to the report that a mine had been ? washed ashore. Mines laid presumably A by the German raider Wolf during tb 'Jkfl last war have come ashore at interva^^M on the west coast of the North Islar><4^^| At present rewards are being offerc J^H through the Customs Department fo^^H the recovery of mines in New Zealancd^B waters. ;^|
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 8
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164FOUND ON THE BEACH Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 8
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