BODY WASHED ASHORE
MAN MISSING FROM SHIP (Pur Press Association.) WESTPORT. this day. The body of Herbert Scollay, aged 35 a single man who was missed from the Kaimai, the Westport Coal Company's vessel, on February 28, shortly after the vessel left Westport for Auckland, was recovered yesterday morning. It was found washed up on the beach at Cape Foulwind about seven miles south of Westport, by a fisherman, Mr. H. Sutherland. The body was identified yesterday afternoon by a seaman of the Kaimai, which is in port, only by the'clothe:; Mr. Scollay is believed to be a son of Mr. and Mrs. Scollay, Port Chalmers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 7
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106BODY WASHED ASHORE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 7
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