A HARVEST OF THE SEA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3999, 4 August 1915, Page 4

A HARVEST OF THE SEA.

WELLINGTON BEACHES STREWN WITH DRIFTWOOD. A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF THE AFFAIR. (Press Association Telegram.) W ELLINGTON. August o. The beaches at Lyall Bay, Houghtori Bay and Island Bay have presented an extraordinary appearance since Sunday. Enormous quantities ot timber of all sizes, some of it heavy tree trunks, have been washed ashore. Those win; hr si saw it dinning in in more or less compact mass s thought for some time they could see rates and concluded that there iuul been a shipwreck. The timber appears. however, to be flotsam carried into the seas bv flooded rivers. Quantities of pumice have also floated ashore and it is reported that the carcases of two or three horses and cows and some tools and tins of kerosene arc among the debris. It is considered probable that tin; recent floods in the Wanganui and Itangitikei, and perhaps the Waiigaoiiu rivers, wore responsible for st re win or the sea with tne litter and that having drifted t.irotlgli tho straits the flotsam has been driven ashore hv the soutfierly winds and the current. Large num-0 hors of people have profited hv the unexpected harvest that tho sea has Drought and housewives have got fueuoed for months ahead. Even the benzine tanks of motor launches tiavo been replenished from the rescued tins.