LOST OVERBOARD.

Grey River Argus, 11 January 1928, Page 4

LOST OVERBOARD.

YOUNG SEAMAN’S TRAGIC END. CHRISTCHURCH, January 10. Advice has been received from the Karctu, on route to Newcastle, that Joseph J. Murray, an able seaman, was lost overboard on Sunday. Murray was well known in Lyttelton, where his widow resides. He was 29 years of age. He came to the Dominion when a lad, and after leaving school joined the Union Coy’s training ship Apauma as an apprentice. He ship Aparima as an apprentice. He was in the Aparima wh> n she was torpedoed in the English Channel. For the past ten years he had been serving in the Union Coy’s ships on the New Zealand and Australian run.