Bottle Travels 4000 Miles in the Sea
MILLION-TO-ONE CHANCE. LONDON, Juuo 6. By what is reckoned to be a million-to-one chance, a bottle thrown from a ship has been recovercu. While Reginald G. Reynolds, a speedway enthusiast, was working his passage as a steward on the Narkunda, on which the English speedway riders were travelling to Australia last November, he threw overboard a bottle containing a message asking the finder to communicate with his English address. Reynolds was watching the racing at Lea Bridge, London, when he heard the loud speakers announce that tho bottle had been picked up on Southport Beach, Queensland. It had travelled 4000 miles.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 3
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