JUMPED OVERBOARD.
WHANG AREI FLORIST’S TRAGIC END. WHANGAREI. August 24. During the voyage of the Claymore from Auckland to Whangarei on Thursday night, a passenger, named R. Clayton, about sixty years, mysteriously vanished. Shortly after midnight a steward observed Clayton apparently asleep in his bunk. At 2.15 an engineer noticed a man., answering Clayton’s description, standing aft. At 0.3 b a.m. the steward reported that Clayton’s bunk was empty. The passenger was nowhere to be found aboard, as the result of a close search. His clothes and other belongings, except a suit of pyjamas he was wearing were all near the bunk. Papers disclosed that the jnissing man was a florist, of Taura nga.
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Grey River Argus, 25 August 1928, Page 5
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114JUMPED OVERBOARD. Grey River Argus, 25 August 1928, Page 5
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