Ure family's claim for remote oil-rich reefs fails

By Louise Hall
Updated February 11 2016 - 12:18pm, first published February 10 2016 - 8:30pm
Paul Ure and his wife Sylvia. Photo: Facebook
Paul Ure and his wife Sylvia. Photo: Facebook

In March 1970, Australian businessman Alexander Ure erected a sign on the bridge of a wrecked cargo liner stranded on a remote reef in the Tasman Sea, 600 kilometres east of Coffs Harbour.