MESSAGE IN BOTTLE
THROWN FROM ACHILLES DISCOVERY AT HEADS “This bottle was thrown overboard from the ship H.M.S. Achilles on 6th day of January 1942 between N.Z. and Australia. Finder please return this to: Second-Officer J. G. Holt, c/o Naval Headquarters, Devonport, Auckland. State date and location of place found. (Signed) J. G. Holt.” Such were the contents of a note, printed on a rough piece of brown paper found enclosed in a bottle cast up between the Heads and Otirawairere Bay last Saturday by Mr Fox, a resident of the Heads. If the note is genuine, and to all intents and purposes it is, the discovery is rather interesting, particularly so, as the currents must have carried it in many diverse ways for it to reach the East Coast of New Zealand, when it was originally cast into the Tasman Sea. We understand thd note is to be forwarded in accordance with the directions.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 85, 12 June 1946, Page 5
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155MESSAGE IN BOTTLE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 85, 12 June 1946, Page 5
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