PIRATES' HOARD
SEARCH FOR BURIED TREASURE EXPEDITION TO COCOS ISLAND. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, September 7. Private advice has been received in Auckland that Captain A. M. Stanton, who was in command of the Melanesmn mission vessel Southern Cross, which was wrecked on Aneityum Island on her maiden voyage to the islands, has been appointed commander of the vessel which is to leave Bristol in September in search of gold, silver, jewels and other loot which pirates are believed to have buried on Cocos Island. The vessel, the Romance, has been elaborately fitted oat by a wealthy resident of Coventry and will carry a party of nine, the vessel beinc a Bristol pilot cutter fitted • wuh a motor engine.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 10
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120PIRATES' HOARD Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 10
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