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An interesting item about a revolutionary form of international communications has landed on Gossip's desk. Ohakune family Merv, Jill, Kane and Popeye were holidaying in the Coromandel over summer and Jill found a bottle with a message (and money!) in it. The note was from an American couple on a honeymoon ocean cruise on the Royal Viking Sky and they had included their address in the bottle posted mid-Tasman Sea. Jill wrote to the couple, who live north of New York, and received an enthusiastic reply inviting the family to come and stay. And, it just so happens Jill and Kane were planning an overseas trip (Merv and Popeye have to stay home and look after each other) that takes in New York, how eonvenient! Jill and Kane are probably taking up the invitation right this minute. The communications system is not likely to threaten Telecom and their mates - it took a whole year for the message to be received.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 277, 7 March 1989, Page 16
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