A LOST BROTHER.

Shannon News, 27 August 1926, Page 2

A LOST BROTHER.

INQUIRY BY WIRELESS. VIGILANCE OF A LISTENER. v AUCKLAND, August 13. On the evening of January 18 of this year Mr A. Condiie, of Kingsiand, a young. wireless enthusiast, picked up a message that had been broadcast here. The message was to the effect that G. L. Dean, of Sydney, was seeking informal.on as to the whereabouts, of his’ brother, John Dean, who had last been heard of on the Rona, the Colonial Sugar Company ? s steamer, which brings sugar from Fiji to the works in Auckland. Mi 1 Conchie keeps a log and he recorded the message in it.

On Tuesday evening last, a seaman named John Dean, fell from the gangway of the Rona, when it was berthed at the company’s works at Chelsea, and was drowned. Mr Conchie’s memory served him well for, on seeing the report, he looked up his log and was able to report the message he had received over six months previously to the waterfront police at Auckland. The police are communicating with the authorities in Australia. Up to the time that Mr Conchie acquainted them with\his log entry they had not been able to trace any relatives of the deceased man. It seems improbable that he is other than the man whose brother was seeking for him in January. The incident provides another example .of the great possibilities of wireless and. incidentally, of the value of enthusiasts malting notes of, at least, any . unupual messages- they receive.