FOUND DROWNED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12784, 30 October 1919, Page 7

FOUND DROWNED.

OAMARU RESIDENT’S DEATH. [Ebr Press Association.] TVin w ’ October 30A- 0. Clarke, a returned nV^+- and r- EeCre - tary of th 6 local EeS? t on Committee, who 1 disappeared ■ nously eighteen days ago, leaving coat on the breakwater, was found this momine m the liarbour. t.larko disappeared on October 11, reSw°; f .“blotters to Oamaru residents advising them that he had h . lB affairs “ order, as he was world i 1 ! 0 dopar j , from this wonderful lorld of love and hope,” owing to bis ri -L rOUb ~ h , G police wero commupicatod with, and a wide search was hat tho rasult that Clarke’s hat and wa kmg-stick wore found on the steps dose to the water’s edge b ° fi 0 , 1e w barf, just at the enharbour. Clarke, who was on +1 ? b ' S Untll O’clock hi hj u provions Saturday arranged h>s business and private atInrfloVi 1 1,10 , n ’ ost methodical fashion, and left complete instructions as to the disposal, of his possessions/ and also h / S l ep % ts to dat « to tho chair, man of the Repatriation Committee. wa s last seen alive on the batnrdav afternoon, at two o’clock, inlormed the recipients of the letters that ranuiy reasons alone prompted lum to ns life. Although a thorougli search was earned out no trace of the missing man was found. Clarke enlisted in Auckland in the Main Body, but as he was ,a competent bank official he was kept back with the rank of ser-geant-major to do clerical duty. Eventually he sacrificed his’stripes to go ™-ay with the Third ReinforcementsHo took part in the Gallipoli campaign and was badly wounded, his leg being severely shattered.. He spent long, months m hospital in England and New Zealand and suffered much from his leg, and only a few months, ago had to undergo’hospital treatment. He was appointed secretary of the Oamaru Repatriation 'Committee on the inauguration of the scheme, arid proved a consumptions capable and popular officer. Ulior to his appointment in the Repatriation Departtnent he was secretary of the Oamaru Returned Soldiers* Association. He recently won tho junior championship of, the North Otago Golf Club.) ■ 5; 1 ' ■>