IMPORTANT STATEMENT
BY NAVAL ADVISER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Nikht. The following statement is issued by the Naval Adviser to the New Zealand G-ovornment with referenco to the discovery" of mines in iNevv Zealand waters: "In order to allay the various rumours as to the origin and type, it is pointed out that they are of known and distinctly German type and origin. They were firmly moored in a position, and it is only under very exceptional circumstances that they would have drifted. They are not such as could bo manufactured locally, nor could any amateurs deal with them, and it may be safely assumed that they were laid by a vessel properly fitted for the purpose by the enemy. It is practically impossible for them to have been laid surreptitiously by any neutral
other vessel which visited New Zealand or other British ports, as the concealment of the mines themselves and the necessary structural apparatus for launching them-would be practically impossible. It seems clear, therefore, tha liey must have been laid by a hos-tne enemy vessel, properly commissioned and organised for tho work.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 28 February 1918, Page 5
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185IMPORTANT STATEMENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 28 February 1918, Page 5
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