KILLED AT SEA.
AUSTRALIAN EX-JOURNALIST. I United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; —United Service;. Received 12.4-5 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. 4. When the Finnish sailing ship, Grace Manner, was between New Zealand and Cape Horn, Ronald Walker, an Australian journalist, who was serving as a seaman, went out on the top-gallant yard to clear a fouled gasket, but the upper yard was carried away and lie was killed instantly. His watch mates brought the body down with great difficulty. The body was buried at sea next day. Walker was formerly on] the staff of the Hobart “Mercury.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 5 September 1929, Page 9
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