FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 81, 4 August 1915, Page 2

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

Peii fRKSS Association. - (Wellington; August 3. The- beaches of Lyall Bay, Houghtori Buy, and Island Bay have presented an extraordinary appearance since Sunday. Enormous quantities of timber of all sizes. Some of it very long tree-trunks, have been washed ashore. Those who first saw it drifting in, in more or less compact masses, thought for some time that thev could see rafts, and concluded that there had been a shipwreck. |The timber appears, however, to be flotsam carried into the se ;l by flooded rivers. Quantities of pumice have also floated ashore, and it is reported that the carcases of two or three horses and cows, and some tools and itins of kerosene are among the deb'ris. It is considered probable that tile recent floods in the Wanganui and Wangaehu, and perhaps the Haugitikei, rivers were responsible Ifor strewing the sea with the litter, and that having drifted through the Strait, the flotsam has been driven I ashore by the southerly winds and the current. Large numbers of people have profited by the unexpected [harvest that the sea has brought, au.l housewives have got firewood for months ahead. Even the benzine .tanks of motor launches have heen replenished from the rescued tins.