HYDERABAD RELICS
Wreck Unlikely To Be Broken Up
Press Association —Copyright. Levin, June 2.
Two carved wooden panels, relics of .the wreck of the Hyderabad and the property of Mr R, MacDonald, of Beach. Rolad,, Levin, are displayed in. a shop window in Levin. They were embodied in the walls of ithe saloon of the vessel, wrecked 59 years ago on the Waitarere beach, anj*they depict seafaring figures of an earlier age and apparently of Eastern origin. Aa a meeting of the Fox'ton Cham* ber of Commerce Mr C. L. Hunter, M.P., said there was little fear of the Hyderabad wreck being broken up for scrap metal. The two young men engaged on this work had. now packed up their gear rand left Waita. rere beach. Mr Hunter said that ther e would have been no need for any outcry over (the proposal had the Waitarere Domain Board got in touch with those concerned in the first placje. A number of people had attempted to break (the wreck up ' land failed, and he had, little fear that it would ever be broken up.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 448, 2 June 1937, Page 5
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183HYDERABAD RELICS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 448, 2 June 1937, Page 5
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