FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 220, 13 April 1933, Page 5

FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS

Bottle Floating About Tasman

i Sea ! I i PICKED UP ON QUEENSLAND COAST | Handed to American Consul ; Press Association —Copyright j Received Today, 10.30 a.in. i Brisbane, To-day.—A bottle picked j up on the Noosa Beach at Tewantin j contained a paper bearing the words j “Thrown overboard 4/0/30 by Master ■T. V. Hill, Niagara, longitude 375 ! cast, latitude 30 south, j “Finder please return to United I States Hydrographic Department, j Washington.” The document has been j sent to the American consul at Bris- : bane. The position given is 200 miles j north of the North Cape of New ZeaI land.

Captain Hill slated the although the bottle was picked up only 1000 miles west of where it was dropped, it might have been drifting nil over the Tasman Sea.