MISSIONARY'S DEATH
Lost From Launch in Storm AUCKLAND. Last Night. The Melanesian Mission ship} Southern Cross VII, which arrived to-day. brought details of a tragedy in January, when the Rev. George Henry West, a member of the Mission staff, who lost his life i'n the Santa Cruz group. With a crew of five natives. Mr West undertook a 60-mile trip by launch ift fche opeu sea. Heavy weather was encountered and the launch lost sight of land. On the second evening out the launch di'ifted in-shore in the darVness and tUe natives reached the reef There was no sign of Mr Wnt
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 74, 14 April 1937, Page 8
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102MISSIONARY'S DEATH Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 74, 14 April 1937, Page 8
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