When Private W. Way good, of tlie *th Otago Infantry, throw a bottle containing a New Year's greeting to the world over, board from a New Zealand troopship, he could not (the Melbourne Herald says) have foreseen that the bottled wishes would go to Waratah Bay. South Gippsland. The bottle was picked up there on March 19' Pour days previously a bottle containing a message from a trooper was picked up in Waratah Bav. These discoveries are useful' as showing the drifts of the ocean currents' ihe bottles are now in the possession of the Ports and Harbours Department. Private Waygood gives his address ss " G.P O W'"* lington, New Zealand." " " "f
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16348, 3 April 1915, Page 7
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