WASHED ASHORE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 324, 25 February 1910, Page 5

WASHED ASHORE.

LIFKHKLTS KLOATIXI; ABOIT

By Telegraph.—Fress Association

(.hristvimrcli, ui>t Xi„'".u. AVi! .j oil;; n-i'ii, ol In wood'* road, l!nr■wooi.. i i'ii~ having made :>ij iiniiKii.il find, when walking along the lum.U north of New Brighton tins ifterno.in. in the shape ot » niiml>er of -hip', beiis. This afternoon about tliv.-" o'clock, lie siiw a lifebelt in tile sea lull did not lake much notice of it. A !ill lunhi'i- on, however, ) t came upon two more, and liv the time ,ie the Waiinakariri river he !i :l ,| picked lip fourteen. lie collected |||..,u, took them inland and alack" I th«-m on sonic barrels out of reach o>' 'he ■■■.<. Dn his v.av hack to Xc\, KrightMi, lepicked ii]) seven more, and I lie. ' tralso piaoed out of the reach of th» '! lie litebcdts appeared to have 1,-en m the sea lor some time, as some of lh.- )i had mussels attached to them. One h-M on it either a number or initial, hut, on account of its condition from being i the son for a long Dime, .Mr. .lohan -it was unable to determine what Uimarks arc, though they appear to ><■ the letters "R.(i.. n with "1"' over the-i. There are two kinds of lifebelt* pick" I up; one kind has arm holes and a !<> ,[> to fit the shoulders, whilst the other lias a d'oiilile row of small corks in front. It is evident that all the lifebelts have travelled some distance, Johansen saw others in the water, and hopes to get them to-morrow, and that those he got to-day will he diy enough to-morrow to permit of any marks being deciphered.