COOK STRAIT WRECKAGE.
A BOAT AND A HATCH. POSSIBLE RELIC OF CYRENA. [B? TELEORAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. 3 WELLINGTON 1 . Saturday. Sinco mysterious rockets were reported !o have been seen in Cook Strait some weeks ago, the Marine Department has been keeping a look-out for wreckage around the coast. Late yesterday it was reported from the Papanui sheep station, to the'west of Johnsonville, that portions of a boat and of a ship's hatch had been cast' ashore. Captain Keane, one of the department's officials, motored out to-day and examined the wreckage. The remains of the boat showed that the craft had once been gaudily painted, and it is therefore believed to have belonged to some of the Italian fishermen who ply their calling further along the coast. Tho piece of hatch evidently had belonged to an ocean-going vessel, and was marked F.V., followed by three in Roman numerals and four round holes. The latter were similar to tho numbermarks used where a Lascar or Chinese crow is carried. It seems likely that the hatch belonged to the steamer Cyrena, lost at Wanganui recently. All tho wreckage had been in tho water at least a month.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19062, 6 July 1925, Page 8
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194COOK STRAIT WRECKAGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19062, 6 July 1925, Page 8
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