THE MYTHICAL ROCK.
CAPTAIN BOLLONS’S REPORT. (From Ora Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, September 23. Captain J. Bollons, of the Tutanekai, reports having on September 10 exhaustively searched for the sunken rock reported on May 11, 1925, to exist at an estimated distance of about one mile southward of Dog Island. Captain Bollons reports that the search was carried out under conditions of sea which would have shown distinctly any shoal carrying up to seven fathoms of water; that the bottom in the locality in which the rock was reported to exist is clear and has a uniform depth of 14 fathoms at low water, and the reported shoal does not exist. Captain Bollons supplies the following information for the use of vessels when nearing Dog Island: “By keeping Whale Point (south-west point) open of Lookout Point (on Bluff Hill) Dog Island will be passed at a distance of at least one mile in a depth of from 13 to 14 fathoms of water.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19903, 24 September 1926, Page 12
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162THE MYTHICAL ROCK. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19903, 24 September 1926, Page 12
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