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Ken Fergusson found the bottle at Ninety Mile Beach.
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Contact details inside have connected the Awanui community with a Greek seafarer who has never been to New Zealand.
At first fisherman Ken Fergusson thought the wine bottle was just another piece of litter when he found it last week. Somebody would be running over it and breaking it, [I thought it would] cause a problem for people s feet. So I stopped and picked it up and threw it on the back of my truck, got home, went to throw it in the rubbish and I noticed there was a card in it.
Northland message in a bottle gives man connection to Greek mariner Wed, 12 May 2021, 4:50PM
Ken Ferguson with the bottle, complete with a Greek master mariner s card, he found on Ninety Mile Beach. (Photo / Peter Jackson)
Northland message in a bottle gives man connection to Greek mariner Wed, 12 May 2021, 4:50PM
It s said that in many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
But Awanui man Ken Ferguson has a more direct link to the Mediterranean country.
Ferguson has done his best to make contact with the Greek master mariner who put his business card in a bottle, date and place unknown, and threw it into the sea, but there s a problem.