FLOATING MINES
ANOTHER WARNING
(Per United Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, May 26
The Secretary of the Post Office has received the following message from the Awarua wireless station: A navigation warning sent by Garden Island states that the master of the schooner Joseph Sims reports sighting two egg-shaped floating objects, black in colour, apparently mines, a quarter of a mile apart on the morning of May 22 in position 30 degrees 36 minutes 15’ seconds south, 150 degrees 24 minutes east. The objects are about four feet above the water.
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Southland Times, Issue 18832, 27 May 1920, Page 5
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89FLOATING MINES Southland Times, Issue 18832, 27 May 1920, Page 5
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