A DEATH AT SEA.
PASSENGER BY TAMAROA
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON, Monday The death of one of the first-class passengers, Mr. G. Busby, occurred on June 25 on board the steamer Tamaroa, which arrived at Wellington last night from England. Death was due to heart fail* ure and the vessel was eight days out from Southampton at the time. Mr. Busby, it is understood, was a sheep farmer in the Tokomaru Bay district and had been to England for a trip. The body was buried at sea.
Mr. G. Busby was a well-known figure on the East Coast, says a Press Association message from Gisborne. He spe his early life in Hawke's Bay on the - tion owned by his father, who was tne son of Mr. Busby, British Resist ,n New Zealand in 1833 at the By Islands. Mr. G. Busby came to loK£ maru Bay 37 years ago with his fattter
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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