WRECKAGE FOUND.
TWO DISCOVERIES IN AUCKLAND PROVINCE. (BY TEI.EO It A PU —I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, October 17. Wreckage has been found on tho West Coast, thirty miles south of Capo Maria van Dieman. It consists of a spar, about eleven inches in diameter and fifty feet long; part of a bow scroll all painted with red hematite ; parts of a boat, painted white, but with no name on it; and pieces of doors, with ivhito centre and sma.ll flag, divided vertically—one Jialf liko a Union Jack, the other half dark blue. A piece of American pine, which had evidently been used as a carpenter's bench on some vessel, was found at Oruawharo Bay, Great Barrier, covered with barnacles. It had apparently been long adrift.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 7
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124WRECKAGE FOUND. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 7
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