BODY FOUND ON BEACH
MISSING PETONE MAN FIRE BRIGADE OFFICER (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Albert Samuel Burrows, aged 52, the deputy superintendent of the Petone Fire Brigade, was found dead on the Lyall Bay beach yesterday. Mr. Burrows left the Petone fire station, where he resided with his wife and two sons, the latter aged 20 and 13 years respectively, on Saturday afternoon to attend a football match in Wellington. He did not return home when expected and parties organised by Superintendent J. P. Gaynor of the brigade searched for him.
It was ascertained that he travelled by bus to Wellington, where he was seen after 4 p.m. ■ The search was resumed yesterday morning and Mr. Burrows was found at Lyall Bay by a resident, who informed the beach caretaker.
Mr.'Burrows had apparently been sitting on the sea wall and had fallen off and died. He had not been in good health and was to have left with Mrs. Burrows on a holiday visit to Auckland to-day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 27 June 1938, Page 5
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