Strange things are at times washed up on the shores of Stewart Island after gales, but the most mystifying were some articles cast up on the point of “ The Neck” recently (says the Southland Daily News). Mr Hans Nilsen, who with his family is now the only resident of this one-time popular Native settlement, reported finding a complete side of bacon, a roll of bacon, and a small door evidently from a boat. 2kll the articles appeared fairly new. A very high tide accompanied the recent westerly gale, and a visitor to Hellfire Bay stated that the huge iron ship’s derrick which had been on the beach for over a year had been pushed well up on the sandhills by the force of the waves. The derrick is thought to have come from the wreck of the Konini, but, if so, it must have been drifting at sea for a long time, and it is fortunate that it did not get in the path of a boat travelling by night.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 7
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