DEATH OF PREMIER OF TASMANIA
MR OGILVIE SUFFERS TWO HEART ATTACKS (Received June 12, 1.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 11. After two heart attacks the Premier of Tasmania (Mr Albert George Ogilvie, K.C.), who was passing through Melbourne on the way to Canberra to attend a meeting of the Loan Council, died suddenly at Warburton, a tourist resort near Melbourne, yesterday. Mr Ogilvie had intended to leave for Canberra today. He visited Warburton to play golf in the afternoon, when he complained of feeling unwell. At night he suffered another attack and died in a few minutes. Mr Ogilvie was a former political colleague of Mr J. A. Lyons, who died in office as Federal Prime Minister recently. The body will be sent by air to Tasmania today.
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Southland Times, Issue 23841, 12 June 1939, Page 7
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