EXAMINATION OF WRECKAGE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14654, 7 March 1918, Page 4

EXAMINATION OF WRECKAGE.

(United Press Association.)

xx' n r< C'sborne, March 6. , Mv s '• & Goffe, Native Land Pur-, chase Officer who has inspected tiie wreckage at Te Araroa and that found nearer_ Gisborne, says he is convinced that it is from tho same vessel, evidently a three-masted ship. \ielted copper and brass fittings found ~at Te Araroa support the fire theory Thp condition of the articles indicates that they have not been m the water long ,„ •, . , Napier, STarch 6. ,„. Oli case Picked up on the Knit; (G»borne) beach branSed C Beai* bears the brand of a consignment of oil from San Francisco from Cranby and Co Ihe wreckage coming ashore at Gisborne may be from an oil vessel that is now overdue.