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NO SIGN OF MISSING KOTIKI FOUND BY KAIMAI TWO PASSENGERS ABOARD WELLINGTON, Monday. It is now learned that there are two passengers aboard the Kotiki, Messrs Hamilton Matthews, telegraphist, and Stanley Cummings, taxi owner, both of Westport. The master of the Kaimai, which arrived this morning from Greymouth, reported that the vessel had passed within a mile of the spot where the oil drums were washed ashore, and although a sharp lookout was kept when passing every nook and bay from there to Wellington no sign of the ship or any wreckage was seen.
survived the "chance ealled Death." We often spoke of it together. He has just gone, I believe, to get new facilities to continue his work, but the sense of personal loss is very heavy. There was only one Edison." On board the U.S.S. Arkansas, en route to Yorktown, the President, Mr Herbert Hoover, eulogised Edison as the greatest inventor the nation had ever produced and a benefactor to all mankind. Mr Hoover will attend the funeral if the affairs of the. Government permit. He said: "It is given to f ew men of any age, nation, or calling to become a benefactor to all humanity. That distinction came abundantly to Thomas Alva Edison. His death in his 85th year has ended a life. of courage. and outstanding achievement."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 October 1931, Page 3
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