MAN DROWNED
Jumped From Moving Ferry Steamer
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, January 21.
After the ferry steamer Albatross had disembarked her midnight passengers from the city at Northeote and was moving off for Birkenhead, a Northeote passenger, Urquhart Duff Cameron, aged 38, single, employed as a stoker at the Auckland gasworks, who had been in the cabin, rushed on deck to land at Northeote. The first officer, Mr. Gordon Benfell, called out to him not to jump as the steamer was moving. The man jumped, however, missed the wharf and fell back. He struck the belting of the vessel and disappeared. A dinghy was lowered, but a search, which was continued for an hour, was resultless. A brother resides at Gisborne and another at Taumarunui.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 20
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125MAN DROWNED Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 20
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