HARBOUR INCIDENT
FIRING OF SHELL. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 16. The launch which ha<l a shot fired across the bows by a coastal battery early yesterday because it failed to report to the examination • ship on entering Rangitoto Channel was engaged in towing logs. Colonel Weir (Officer Commanding the District) said to-day that the shot fired was a plug shell, which was a solid missile without a fuse. The launch stopped immediately and remained anchored until daylight.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 8
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78HARBOUR INCIDENT Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 8
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