DOMINION NEWS
THE “TASMAN” AUCKLAND, February 14. In her white paint and with, the usual Red Cross markings, the “Tasman,” which arrived yesterday with Java evacuees, appeared little different from the days before the war, when, as a Dutch South Pacific Line passenger vessel, she was on the run from New Zealand through the East Indits and Singapore to Saigon Her master, Captain William Eleveld, was in command of the ship before the war, and said he had been able to inform his passengers, all evacuees, of good things they could expect m New Zealand. Pie has held command of the ship throughout the war, first as a troopship, which look part in the first landings at New Guinea, and later as a hospital ship. BOY KILLED BY LORRY. p.A. DANNEVIRKE, Feb. 14. Wlren leaving the Dannevirke A. & P. Showgrounds late yesterday, a boy, aged five, son of Mr. E. C. Hope, Dannevirke, came into contact with a lorry while crossing the road and the back wheels ran over him. Death was instantaneous.
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Grey River Argus, 15 February 1946, Page 7
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