A GERMAN MINE
RECOVERED BY TRAILER/ / (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 28. A German , mine, apparently one of those laid in the track of shipping off Gabo Island by the raider Wolf in 1917, was recovered .by a trawler, Koraaga, near Cape ;Everard. The trawl had been dragging on the ocean bottom in' sixty-five fathoms and those of tye .crew with mine sweeping experience wert startled when a mine , tumbled, out on deck. It was about feur feet high with a diameter of. two feet‘'and weighed five hundredweight. ' It is thought the mine is now harmless hut naval men will examine it- to-day.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1929, Page 6
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