A bottle which floated ashore at Hook Point, Fraser Island, off the east coast of Queensland, on February 2 recalled the visit to Australia last year of the large contingent of New Zealand returned soldiers. The bottle was thrown overboard in mid-Tasman from the Monowai on April 24. and it bore the signatures of Messrs A. Watson, W. Mawhinney. E. T. Seymour, G. Renwick and J. A. Morris, all of Dunedin. The bottle was seen bobbing about in the waves 10 months later by Mr V.'H. Macdonald, lighthouse keeper at Hook Point, who is also a returned soldier. He retrieved it as he went out to tend his two lights, and was so pleased with this unexpected break in the monotony of his vigil that he wrote to each of the five signatories, who have just received his letters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1939, Page 7
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