NOTES IN BOTTLES.
FATAL TASMAN FLIGHT. ALLEGED CALLS FOR HELP. Bottle messages, alleged to have been sent by the crew of the monoplane "Ao-tea-roa," Captain Hood and Lieutenant Moncrieff, who set out to fly the Tasman on January 10, 1928, have been found riear Christchurch. Last Friday a group of boys' noticed a bottle floating in the surf. One of them retrieved it and found that thcro was a message inside. Breaking the bottle, they extracted a piece of paper about three inches wide, ruled faint ied, and apparently torn from a notebook. This was coffee stained and was in a coffee bottle. It read: "All hope gone. Plane falling fast. Mid-Tasman. Hood." From the wording of the noto and from its being found on the opposite side of the island to the Tasman, it is believed that the message is a hoax. The following day a further bottle—this time a lemonade bottle—was found near Christchurch, with a message written in a very illiterate hand: "Wireless and rudder damaged, plane being forced lower every help. Hood." This is also believed to bo a hoax.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20779, 23 January 1931, Page 12
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