FAREWELL SPIT MINES.
1 LAID BY ENEMY VESSEL. , WELLINGTON February 29. ! The following statement is issued b; : the Naval Adviser to the New Zealaiu Government with reference to the, dis covery of mines in New Zealanc I waters; “In order to allay various ru. mours as to the origin and type, ii is pointed out that they are of known and distinctly German type and origir .They were firmly ■ moored in position | unci it iifi only under very exceptional j'circumstances that they would drift, They are not such as,can be manufne- ! tured locally ; nor could amateurs deal ! with them, and it may be safely as- ,. sumed tliat they were laid by a vessel j properly fitted for the purpose by the 1 enemy. It is practically impossible for them to have been laijl surreptiously by any neutral or other - vessel which visited New Zealand, or other British ports, as the concealment of the mines themselves, and the necessary structural apparatus for the launching of them would lie practically impossible. It seems clear, therefore that they most have been laid by a hostile enemy vessel properly commissioned and organoil for tlie work.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1918, Page 3
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191FAREWELL SPIT MINES. Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1918, Page 3
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