AN INTERESTING RELIC.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5028, 17 September 1926, Page 3

AN INTERESTING RELIC.

WAIRARAPA WRECK RECALLED,

When Dr. Harold A. Cooper, of Eltha,m, arrived in London the general strike was in progress, and he offered his services as special constable, spending thus his first ten days' in the, metropolis. Since, then, with Mrs Cooper, he has toured the whole of the South of England, covering by m6tor-car some 1500 imles df the best roads it has. ever been his privilege to travel over. Since then Dr. and Mrs Cooper have been motoring through England to the north, ajid they are now in Yorkshire (writes the London correspondent of the Wellington Post). On one; of the walls of the museum in Bolton Castle Dr. Copper noticed in a frame a photograph of the wreck of the s.s. Wairarapa, together with a description of the disaster and the names of those who unfortunately lost their lives. (This was a,n extract from the New Zealand Herald.) There was also a saloon ticket made out in the name of Mr W. Rowntree, who was reported to have lost his life. Ml Rowntree had booked from Sydney by the Wairarapa, but d;t the last moment he was prevented from sailing. He is now living a few miles from Bolton. The frame was made out of some of the Wood salved from th® wreck, and he presented the frame and its contents to the Bolton Castle Museum.