WRECKED COORONG
PLAN TO DISMANTLE MAILS LITTLE DAMAGED DARWIN. Dec. 14 The wrecked Imperial Airways flying-boat Coorong, swept on to the rocks in a gale on' Monday night, which, it is understood, is insured for the full value (£60,000), will be dismantled where it lies and shipped to England to be reconstructed. Although the Darwin postal officials refuse to make available the amount of mails aboard the Coorong, the percentage damaged and the addresses of consignment, it is known that the mails suffered little damage and are consigned mostly to Brisbane, Sydney and New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23221, 15 December 1938, Page 16
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