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DEAD MAN FOUND

iFTEE THREE WEE-KS IN' THE ■HAE-8008. The body of a man was found floating Id the harbour at about noon yesterday, and later was identified as that of John M'Ghan, a wharf labourer. . Mr. Axel Pcrsson, of SB Dixon Street, first saw- the body submerged in the rater, nnder tho Railway Wharf, whore it.'jntsout from the .Waterloo Breastwork. The police were informed, and in ./.tho meantime. .Mr.. Person vowed a ■dinghy undor the vchlirf and secured the. i 'foody .with a. rope.. On. the arrival of ■Constables .O'Connor "and Cloveiioy, it; .was removed to the morgue.... In the pock- . cte were-four one pound.notes, it Os. 2d. in coin, a certificate of enrolment, and a ■jack-hook. Later, in .'the .'.day .Tames Newoll, proprietor of Young's Private Hotel, identified M'Ghan as'one of his boarders. Ho'had been missim; since July 1. -'.. . ■ M'Ghan was a tall, well-set-up man of about • forty years of age, and—it is thought—was single.. He. was living..' in (Brisbane before he came to Notf Zealand. An inquest will be held. • mieson. and W. Howard Booth wove the On Thursday last, Mrs. T. P. Watson, the Health of Women a.nd Children, spent

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3143, 23 July 1917, Page 7

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DEAD MAN FOUND Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3143, 23 July 1917, Page 7

DEAD MAN FOUND Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3143, 23 July 1917, Page 7

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