BOTTLE’S LONG DRIFT
THROWN FROM MONOWAI FOUND IN QUEENSLAND A bottle which floated ashore at Hook Point, Fraser Island, off the coast of Queensland, on February 2 recalled ithe visit fo Australia last year of a large contingent of New Zealand returned soldiers. The bottle was thrown overboard 'in mid-Tasman from the Monowai on April 24 and it bore the signatures of Messrs. A. Watson, W. Mawhinney, E. T. Seymour, G. Renwick and J. A. Moiiis, ■ill of Dunedin. The bottle was seen bobbing about in the waves 10 months later by Mr. V. FI. MacDonald, the lighthouse-keeper at Hook Point,_ who also is a returned soldier. Fie retrieved it as he went out fo tend his two lights and was* so pleased with this unexpected break in the monotony of his vigil that he wrote to each of 'the five signatories, who have just received his letters.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19887, 15 March 1939, Page 8
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148BOTTLE’S LONG DRIFT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19887, 15 March 1939, Page 8
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