MAHENO MYSTERY
Passenger Missing By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, February 6. A coronial inquiry was opened concerning the disappearance from the Maheno 200 miles from Bluff of a passenger, Charles Alexander Burnett, booked for Dunedin, who was missing from the ship on Sunday morning, having been last seen at 8 o’clock on the previous night. The purser deposed that there was nothing peculiar about Burnett’s conduct, but he was very quiet, and appeared to be despondent. The missing man was the eldest son of the late Mr. William Burnett, a former Mayor of Dunedin, and later a station owner at Mount Stuart. Charles Burnett served with the New Zealand Forces in both the South African War and the Great War, returning from France with his health permanently impaired. He visited Melbourne some months ago for the Centenary, and a breakdown in his health while there gave his family great anxiety. There is a family of three sons and two daughters. Lady Statham is a sister. The Inquiry was adjourned.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 4
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