KILLED ON LEAVE
SHIPPING* DIRECTOR'S SON (Special) .WELLINGTON. June 15. ■Advice has been received that Mr Anthony Rooper, eldest son of Mr John R.' Rooper. London director of the Port Line, Ltd., is dead. Mr Anthony Rooper joined up with the Royal Navy on the outbreak of war, and according to a cable message received ;in New Zealand, he was evidently killed in a motor accident while on leave from his ship. , . Mr John Rooper arrived in the Dominion in 1915 to take' over the Dominion management of the; Port Line. -He remained here in that capacity for some years before returning to the head office in London.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24634, 16 June 1941, Page 6
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