MINES IN NEW ZEALAND WATERS.
STATEMENT BY NAVAL ADVISER. WELLINGTON, February 27. Tho following statement has been issued by the Naval Adviser to tho New Zealand Government with reference to tho discovery of mines in New Zealand waters: — "In order to allay various rumours as to the origin and typo of the mines discovered, it is pointed out that they aro of known and distinctly Gorman typo and origin. Thoy were firmly moored in position, and {t is only under very exceptional circumstances that they would drift. They aro not such as could be manufactured locally; nor could any amateurs deal with them; and it may bo safely assumed that they ■were laid by a vessel properly fitted for the purpose by tho enemy. It is practically impossible for them to have been laid surreptitiously by any neutral or other vessel which visitod Now Zealand or other British ports, as tho concealment of the mines themselves and of the necessary structural apparatus for launching them, would be practically impossible. It seems clear, therefore, *hat they must have been laid by a hostile °nomy •vessel, properly commissioned and organised for tho work.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3338, 6 March 1918, Page 7
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