HARBOUR TRAGEDY.
DROWNING AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 21. After the ferry steamer Albatross had disembarked the midnight passengers from the city at Northcote and was' moving off for Birkenhead, a Northcote passenger, Urquhart Duff Cameron, aged 38, single, employed as a stoker at tlie Auckland gasworks, who had been in the cabin, rushed on deck 'to land at Northcote. The first officer, Gordon Benfell, called out not to jump, as the steamer was moving. The man jumped, however, missed the wharf, and fell back, tie struck the vessel and disappeared. A dinghy was low’ered and the search continued for an hour without result. A brother of deceased resides at Gisborne and another at Taumarunui.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 6
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117HARBOUR TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 6
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