COOK'S BODY FOUND.
WELLINGTON, This Day. The body of Mar low, the cook of the Omaka, was recovered last evening on the Petone beach. There is some doubt at present whether six or seven were on board. ' All those lost were Wellington residents. Captain Purvis leaves a widow and two children. Weekes, the engineer, had a wife and four children, and Marlow had a wife and three chilfen. The Wairau' s people say the Omaka passed them when the 1 gale sprang up and they never saw her again. The sea was the heaviest tney had encountered and they had an anxious time'' themselves.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9431, 31 January 1921, Page 5
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