A LONG JOURNEY
BOTTLE FLOATS FOR THREE
YEARS
Australian Press Association.)
(Received Aoiil 13 at- 8.30 a.m.)
BRISBANE, April 13
,i bottL, picked up on Noose Beach at- Tewentin, contained a paper bearing Jlie words: “Thrown overboard 4/6/30 bv the Master 0 f the Niagara. Longitude 175 E. Lot 30S. Finder please return to- United States Hydrographic Department, Washington.”
The document has been sent to the American Consul at Brisbane. The position given is two hundred miles north of the North Cape of New Zealand, Although the bottle was picked up only a thousand miles west of where if wa..; dimmed, it might have been drifting all .over tlm Tasman.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1933, Page 5
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