OMINOUS LETTER
ATHENIA PASSENGER
JOURNEY PROVES FATAL
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, October 28
"I was fortunate to get the last berth on the Athenia," wrote Miss A. B. Fletcher, of Dunedin, in a letter to her sister, -Mrs. Edward Roberts, .of Highgate, just prior to the outbreak of the war.
The second letter, written on the eve of sailing and received only last week, showed how near Miss Fletcher came to cancelling her arrangements for what was to prove a fatal journey.
"I had changed my mind and thought of going to Cornwall instead," she said, "but they were so busy at the shipping office when I went to cancel my berth that I decided to keep to my original intention and leave by the Athenia." ,
Miss Fletcher, though an Australian by birth, lived the greater part of her younger life with her sister in, Dunedin. She was well known to members of St. John's Parish and taught for 15 years in Sunday school. She returned to .Australia .some 20 years ago and since then had visited Dunedin only at intervals.
Last November she came back, intending eventually to make her home here. Before settling down, however, she decided to visit England.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 14
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206OMINOUS LETTER Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 14
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