SEARCH FOR FORTUNES
COCOS ISLAND TREASURE
ANOTHER VENTURE FAILS.
Vancouver, Feb. 8. Another bid for the fabulous mythical treasure at Cocos Island has failed. This time the experience of spending large sums of money in the search that has baffled fortune-hunters for over a century fell to the citizens of Vancouver, who invested £25,000 in tha project. The venture was supported by the presence on the island of a new wireless device, known as the Metallophone, said to be capable of detecting ore bodies. •
The members of the expedition, numbering about twenty, have left the island, which is owned by Costa Rictu The directors are not at all disturbed at their failure up to the present. In fact, they announce publicly that they have discovered the general areas where the-treasure is located on this mountainous islet, whose circumference is not more than eleven miles. Believing in the presence there of treasure valued at about £20,000,000, they will make another effort to locate it, subject, of course, to the generosity of the investing public.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 11
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