REAL TREASURE ISLAND.

Shannon News, 11 March 1924, Page 2

REAL TREASURE ISLAND.

HUNTS FOR BURIED GOLD,

There are a islands scattered about the world whereon buried treasure exists. And people are always trying to find it. . Quite a score of attempts have been made, for instance, to unearth the treasure alleged to be buried on Cocos Island. Yet so far the adventurers have reaped no reward for their toil. Fully £50,000, has been wasted again, in futile atempts to recover the “pirates’ hoard” reported to be hidden near the lip of the crater an an active —very active —volcano on Pagan Island, in the Ladrone Group.

Still, as a set-off against many failures, there have been a few successes. There is no doubt for instance, that a 1 Liverpool sailor named John Adams unearthed treasure to the value of between £150,000 and £200,000 on Auckland Island some years back; while William Watson, a shepherd, recovered in IS6B nearly a ton of gold that had been hidden on one of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Likewise, two ~ runaway seamen, named Handley and Cross, successfully located and dug up a valuable hoard on Oak Islaud, off the coast of Nova Scotia, and this after many others had failed.

later the advent of the railway. The beautiful and historic carvings of early ancestors were executed by the East Coast natives, who still excel in that particular art. The native committee in charge of the marae is ta obtain the services of a man from the Arawa tribe to supervise the work of rcnovatioi. me finer work of retouching and painting the carved images can only be done by those gifted in the craft. When the house is completed it will bo an asset to the tourist attractions of the town and district.