LONG JOURNEY OF A BOTTLE.
WELLINGTON, This Day
} While the troopship NO. 60. with the I }Fifteenth Reinfoi-cements on board ;Was Inaking the voyage from Welling-I 113011 ‘3O England. a bottle containing, lett€l‘s- was thnown overboard south of} Tasmania. ‘After drifting for 3% years the bottle was picked up by the natives of New Hebrides, and given to a missionary, who forwarded the contents to Wellington. One of the letters states the boys on tnoopship 60 are all doing well, considering the rough passage. They have had everything first-class. The 15th N.z.F.A.[ are “pie on," especially those of but. 179.——-Gunner E. s. White, Gunner LiE. Tunnington‘, and Gunner W. Page. . The New Hebrides are between!; 2000 and 2500 miles from the point 1 from which the bottle was thrown '1 overboargl .~_,from the tnoopship. _ A
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 13 April 1920, Page 4
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135LONG JOURNEY OF A BOTTLE. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 13 April 1920, Page 4
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