HICKS BAY FATALITY.
Further details are to hand of the circumstances connected with the drowning of a passenger on the Muko, Mr. Addison Woodley York, who disappeared from the Mako when the vessel -was at anchor in Hicks Bay, about 5.30 p.m. on Sunday, Octoher 12. T>ie police report shows that tihe deceased, who wa6 not married, was a returned soldier, aged about 30, with relatives residing at Waitangi. Bay of Islands. He joined the Mako at Tuparoa as a passenger for Auckland, and had been working for some months at, or near, Pakihiroa station. His health had not -been good, and he was proceeding to Auckland to go into hospital. When last seen on the Mako, about S p.m., he was in good spirits, and was having a final smoke before retiring to bed. When ho was missed shortly after 8 p.m., the ship was thoroughly searched, and about twenty minutes later what was thought to be a voice was heard calling from tho water in the direction of the shore. A ship's boat was at once sent to investigate, but no trace could be found of the missing man.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 253, 24 October 1919, Page 6
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