Car Keys Floated Ashore In Beer Can
Putting a set of keys in a beer cau and tossing them into the sea may not be an orthodox way of returning them to an owner 100 miles away, but this novel means nevertheless turned out to. be suecessful when adopted by a passenger on a shqj which had sailed from Napier. Just after the vessel Condesa moved from her berth, Mr. J. R. Shirley, Bay View, found that his son, Major J. R. Shirley, had his car keys which he had retained in the excitement of shipboard farewell. A raclio message \yas hastilv sent to the Condesa, but by that time she had set course aeross the bay. Some three weeks later the police handed Mr. Shirley his car keysi When the ship was off Mahia, nearly 100 miles from Napier, Major Shirley tied the keys to a beer can, placed a note inside addressing them tq his parents at Bay View, and threw it overboard. The can was picked up by a Maori on the beach at Whakaki, near Wairoa, handed to the police, and the keys were eventually returned. to the owners.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1948, Page 3
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