That an object with a striking resemblance to a Sears Kenmore sewing machine side panel could draw police, media and onlookers to a beach and generate global headlines speaks to the intense interest in Reunion Island's wreckage hunt. National Police Brigadier Gisele Cadar carries the plastic beach debris away from St Denis beach, Reunion Island on Tuesday. Credit:Colin Cosier The beach where Bruno claims to have found the object is within a few hundred metres of the site where another mysterious piece of debris was discovered on Sunday, also found by Bruno. Initial reports speculated the object found on Sunday could be a plane door but Chinese internet sleuths believe it is a cheap stove kettle and Malaysian authorities say it's part of a domestic ladder. In the latest development, Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss confirmed on Wednesday morning that Australia – at the invitation of the French judiciary – will help with the investigation into the B777 wing flap found last week.

"An investigator from the ATSB will join the French and Malaysian-led international investigation team today to examine aircraft wreckage found on La Reunion," Mr Truss said. The plastic piece of debris. Credit:Colin Cosier Residents have combed the Indian Ocean Island's beaches searching for potential wreckage since the Boeing 777 wing flap suspected of belonging to MH370 was discovered. Joining the search is neighbouring Island state Mauritius which has responded to a Malaysian Government request for region assistance in locating debris. Bruno, wearing a yellow top, says he found the plastic object while jogging along a St Denis beach. Credit:Colin Cosier

Mauritius' acting Prime Minister released a statement on Monday pledging to mobilise the country's "air and maritime assets in the search operations" while appealing for "shipping and pleasure crafts to be on the look-out". The escalated search effort comes as questions are asked about the legitimacy of some of the debris findings. National Police Brigadier Gisele Cadar holds the piece of plastic found on St Denis beach, Reunion Island on Tuesday. Credit:Colin Cosier Nicolas Ferrier reportedly found and burnt a plane seat in May near where the 777 wing section was found. He alleged this was his job. However local municipal spokesman Jean-Yves Sambimanan said Mr Ferrier is not employed to collect beach rubbish.

National Police Brigadier Gisele Cadar stands over the plastic object at the site where it was hidden from the media by the man who found it. Credit:Colin Cosier "We've been checking since Sunday morning and nothing he says makes sense. "We even wonder if he is not loony." National Police Brigadier Gisele Cadar addresses the media on the plastic debris found by a man calling himself Bruno on St Denis beach. Credit:Colin Cosier Meanwhile a man who found Malaysian and Taiwanese water bottles on the beach on Sunday said he's found more.

Local lawyer Philippe Creissen tweeted photos Tuesday of Malaysian labelled bottles he said would offer investigators clues. "There are numbers on the bottles that you can still clearly see. You could trace them," he said, adding he would hand them to the French Gendarmerie on Wednesday. An unknown quantity of beach debris has been handed over to the Island's authorities for investigation.

Standing on a rocky beach holding Bruno's latest debris find in her hands, National Police Brigadier Gisele Cadar immediately casts doubt over its possible connection to the Malaysia Airlines flight which disappeared on March 8 last year, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. "It might resemble the back of a plane window or rather the part where the masks fall but right now I can't tell you anything. "It makes me smile a little because it might as well be from a sewing machine," she told journalists gathered on the beach. When National Police officers arrived at the scene, Bruno led them and about a dozen gathered journalists to the plastic item he had hidden on the beach. The middle-aged man would not reveal the location of the object before police arrived prompting journalists to scour the rocky beach looking for the item.

Bruno later asked the police to drop him home. He left the scene before answering further questions or providing his contact details. Speaking over a mobile phone on the beach, Brigadier Cadar asked for instructions and described the object in detail, turning it over in her hands for close inspection. "The round bit makes me think of the back of a plane window or a sewing machine or the box in which they keep the safety items like the masks maybe," she said. The Brigadier later placed the plastic item in the boot of a patrol car and left the scene. Follow FairfaxForeign on Twitter