An Austrian gumdigger, Spiro Tolijancich, picked up a piece of ambergris weighing 321 b. on Saturday morning eight, miles north of Bayly’s Camp, on. tho West Coast beach, near Dargaville. The ambergris was almost lost later in the day. The finder placed it in dry sand and left for Bayly’s camp to procure a sack in which to carry it. On his return the piece was missing, and tho finder had to swim into the second lino of breakers to recover it. Its, value is estimated to bo £BOO. or thereabouts.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1930, Page 8
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