SUDDEN DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 139, 14 June 1932, Page 3

SUDDEN DEATH.

CAPTAIN ROSS CLARK. FORMER CAPTAIN OF MANUKA. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TAURANGA, this day. Captain Roslyn King (Ross) Clark died suddenly last night, aged 43 years He was born in Auckland and educated at Onehunga. When fifteen he went to sea in sailing ships owned by J. J. Craig and Co. After some years lie joined the Union Company, and rose to the rank of captain, commanding the Waikouaiti, Katoa, Kurow and other steamers. Captain Clark was in command of the Manuka when that vessel was lost off Long Point, south of Dunedin, over two years ago. He then retired from the sea and came to Tauranga and established fish-curing works. During the Great War Captain Clark was an officer on the troop-ship Tahiti, and later was in command of a monitor operating on Mesopotamia rivers. He was commended for meritorious service. After the armistice he remained in tho Royal Navy service in Mesopotamia for a short time, and then returned to New Zealand and again joined the Union Company. Some years ago he suffered an attack of rheumatic fever, which affected his heart, and finally caused his sudden death. His wife and two young daughters survive him.