A FLOATING SPAR.
.., SEEN BY PATEENA. ; :7 .A telegram was . received-V yesterday, morning by the. Marine rDepartment from .theharbourmaster at'v.' Picton,' v stating ■that whilo the Pateena .was on. the run from Wellington', to Picton on: Monday , a : spaiv:about':3o feet long, was'sighted , off the. western ledge;, of. l.yall. Bay. When the Pateena ..arrived back vini, Wellington last night, Captain B. M.Aldwell stated that the spar, was, if anything, overt 30. feet long, and resembred the' mast of a ship. He reported ' the , matter because the: spar was quite largo. enough, to be; a' danger to; small, vessels. l ..There 'was no' "probability: of -it :_belonging, -to .the Penguin-, wreck,-. ; iis : ,there was not a 'sign. of. barnacles on'.it. . , '. ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 6
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118A FLOATING SPAR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 6
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