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PASSENGER BY MAHENO By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, February 6. An inquiry was opened to-day and adjourned concerning the disappearance from the Maheno, 200 miles from Bluff, of a passenger, Charles Alexander Burnett, booked for Dunedin, who was missing from the ship on Sunday morning, having been last seen at 8 o’clock the previous night. The purser deposed that there was nothing peculiar about his conduct, but he was very quiet and appeared despondent. The missing man was the eldest son of the late Mr William Burnett, a former Mayor of Dunedin and later a station-owner at Mount Stuart. Mr Charles Burnett served with the New Zealand Forces both in the South African and the Great War, returning from France with his health permanently impaired.
He visited Melbourne some months ago for the centenary, and a breakdown in health while there gave the family great anxiety. There is a family of three sons and two daughters. Lady Statham is a sister.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20027, 7 February 1935, Page 14
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