THE WARATAH.
FURTHER ENQUIRIES REGARD-
ING LIFEBUOY
NO FBESH LIGHT
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, December 28
Enquiry made regarding the lifebuoy washed ashore at Vv'aiuku does not elicit anything definite as to the vessel to which it belonged. The buoy was found by children, and was subsequently seen by three men, wiio state that it bore the letters “Warata,” and there were traces of two other letters which they concluded •made • “Waratah.” There was also something printed resembling a flag and anchor. The buoy was heavily Sv’atqr-ibgged, and covered 'with, 'barnacles-. The children subsequently in washing off the barnacles, destroyed the lettering, but presumably the outlines would be by microscopic examination. If the buoy belonged to the steamer Waratah it may have been lost while she was on the Australian coast.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 13, 28 December 1911, Page 6
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