THE LIFEBELTS MYSTERY.
i POSSIBLE EXPLANATION. ify Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Friday. The Marino Department has been advised thai a settler .near Houhora has picked up a piece of boaTd, apparency the top of a fruit case, -with "b.b.. Mokoia" jlainted on it. It came ashore close lo wlicre the 25 lifebelts wero found two or three days ago. The Mokoia left Auckland for Sydney on Monday night, jiml is due a.t the latter port fco-nigiilt, t.'t is Wougliit'that an empty fruit case was either Crashed or thrown overboard from her on her previous trip to Auckland Auckland, Last Wight. There can be no connection between tlic finding of pjifcHdng-cases marked "Mofcoia" and the lifebelts on the West coast, as the lifebelts- bore no marks. All those on tlic Union steamers are branded with the name of the company. I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 181, 4 September 1909, Page 2
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139THE LIFEBELTS MYSTERY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 181, 4 September 1909, Page 2
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