MISSING PASSENGER
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY
LADY STATHAM'S BROTHER
(By, Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
A Coronial inquiry was opened 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 on the previous night.
The purser deposed that there was nothing peculiar about Burnett's conduct, but he was very quiet, and appeared :to be 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. Charles Burnett served with the ,New Zealand Forces in both the Soutk' African War and the Great War, returning from France with his health permanently impaired. He visited Melbourne some months ago for the. iGentenary, and a breakdown in his health while there gave his family great .anxiety;
There is a family of three sens and two daughters. Lady Statham is a sister.
The inquiry was adourned
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 13
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171MISSING PASSENGER Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 13
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