LATE MR F. W. BUTLER.
BODY RECOVERED AT TAPU. INQUEST TO-DAY. The body of the late Mr F. W. Butler who jumped overboard from the Pae’roa-Auckland steamer Taniwha on Sunday night last, was recovered about 200 yards from the Tapit beach, Johannes Coast, yesterday morning. The body was secured by some residents in the vicinity and the police communicated yvith.
The Thames police immediately left for Tapu by motor-car and brought the body to the morgue. Constable J. McClinchy, of Paeroa, was advised,
and he proceeded to Thames and was
ably to identify the body as that of the late Mr Butler. Later in the day Mr J. H. McDonald, of the local office of tihe Public Works Department, and with whom the deceased had worked for some time, visited the morgue and also identified the body and clothes of the de-
ceased. An inquest is being held at Thames this afternoon, before Mr Lucas, coroner.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5163, 10 August 1927, Page 3
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156LATE MR F. W. BUTLER. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5163, 10 August 1927, Page 3
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