PROGRESS WRECK
ANOTHER VICTIM DIES. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 28. Another victim of the wreck of the steamer “Progress” at Ohiro Bay m May last, John Metcalf, a married seaman, 43 years of age, residing at 19, Yale Road, Newtown, died this morning. The Progress was wrecked on May Ist on a rocky promontory off Ohiro. The deceased was one of the crew who came ashore in a very exhausted and battered condition, he having Been smashed on the rocks by huge breakers. He was taken to Wellington “Hospital, where he had been a patient ever since. Metcalf h d been married twice, and js survived bv his widow.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1931, Page 2
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111PROGRESS WRECK Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1931, Page 2
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