WATCHMAN DROWNED
■Press Association.)
Fall Into Wellington Harbour
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, Last Night. The body of James Alfred Button, nightwatchman on the Eastbourne ferry boats, was discovered near the wbarf by a diver this afternoon. Late last night the engine.er found a hose ruhning into the Muritai 's watortanh which was overflowing. It is thought Button, hearing the tank overflowing, [hurried to the wharf to turn the water iofl; but misged his foothold and fell into the harbour. -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 70, 9 April 1937, Page 7
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