BURIED TREASURE
NEW COCOS ISLAND HUNT (Special to "Chronicle." By Air Mail) LO.nlIOA; April ii. The optimistic searca lor buried J.reasurj still goes on, and evpedilioiis ‘ontinue to sail iroin England. ihe latest consists of 2J wao are leaving Portsmouth. Il they Jail to find I,he treasure tbey will establish a belt-sup-porting colony on a South JSeas isiaud. The leader of the band is Mr. George Cookncll, a diviner, of Coventry. ixC feels certain that his methods will locate the treasure which pirates a.e said to have left on Cocos Island, m the Pacific Ocean. The expedition is being capitalised al about £IU,OOO. Mr. D. D. Curie, of Southsea, is one cf the party setting cut on this modem version of Treasure Island. “If the treasure is recovered,'’ he said “the whole party will return to Britain, but should we fail the whole party will proceed to an island 600 miles south of the Cocg-s Island and there form a self-supporting colony, v.hi-h it, is hoped to make independent of all cut>hie supplies
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 109, 9 May 1936, Page 9
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173BURIED TREASURE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 109, 9 May 1936, Page 9
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