MARINE MINE FOUND

Grey River Argus, 26 July 1941, Page 3

MARINE MINE FOUND

On Great Barrier Island WASHED IN FROM THE SEA. P.A. AUCKLAND, July 25. A mine, which, although some ot its horns were bent, had not exploded, was found among rocks on the shore of Port Fitzroy, in Great Barrier Island, on Sunday, by Mr R. S. Cooper, a farmer, of Port Fitzroy. • , Mr Cooper discovered it when going along the coast on a fishing expedition, and he tied the mine to a pohutukawa tree with a lengtr?. o; rope. , , , , The mine was on the mainland In the upper reaches of the harbour about half a mile from the wbarf. Thp mine was resting above high water mark, and it had apparently been cast ashore by a spring tide. The damage to the horns of the mine seemed to have been done by impact with rocks. , , . “I iust Ped it un with a P’eoe ot rope, and reported it to the Navy,” said Mr Cooper. He said that he thought the mine had been washed

down Abercrombie Channel from the sea. A naval 1 , party, which went tr> Great Barrier Island, took the mine out into deep water, and there destroyed it.