DRIFT OF A BOTTLE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 312, 18 December 1936, Page 5

DRIFT OF A BOTTLE.

Over 400 Miles In Two Months. ’ •-f Press Association —Copyright. Wellington,; To-day. After an argument at sea over the strength and capriciousness of ocean currents off the east coast of the South Island, the Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., and friends decided to make a test. On August 8 last they agreed to cast adrift a corked bottle containing a note, written on the flap of an envelope, stating that the bottle and its message had been thrown into the sea off Jackson’s Head at the northern entrance, to Queen Charlotte Head. The bottle madia a fast drift to the Chatham Islands, as explained in a letter from an island resident to Mr. Mclntyre. The, writer- state sthat exactly two months after the bottle had been thrown overboafd off Jackson’s Head he picked it up on the beach at Pitt Near at hand the finder also picked up 21oz. of ambergris. . The distance by sea from the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound ro Waihere Bay, Chatham Islands, is approximately. 4*15 miles. In acknowledgment. of the courtesy of the Chatham Islands resident in ic-porting the finding of the drifter, Mr. .Mclntyre has sent as a Christmas gift by steamer a bottle with a J Highland message of the right brew.