WHITE ISLAND DISASTER
WRECKAGE LITTERS THE COAST. (By Tolograph—Press Association.) Tauranga September 26. Ocean Beach, near Mount Maunganui, is strewn for some three miles with debris of all descriptions bearing unmistakable signs of coming from White Island. It would probably fill twenty or thirty drays... Pieces of scantling litter the shore by hundreds. • There are tram sleepers showing marks of rails' laid for a 3 ft. b'in. gauge and scores of barrels, staves,' and pieces of barrel heads are scattered about. Many articles bear encrustations of sulphur, connecting the mass of wreckage with tho grim story of the White Island disaster. A quantity of boat wreckage was also found, representing two or three different classes of boats.. The scarcity of signs of house furniture suggest possibly that the greater portion of the living quarters was simply buried where it Stood and the men with it.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 7
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145WHITE ISLAND DISASTER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 7
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