New Zealand
NEW ZEALANDER LOST ON TKE PERSIA. ';...■ 1 Per Press Associatipn. . f Hastings, March 80. Mrs Macduff Boyd, of Hastings, re- ! ceived word to-day that her son, Mr [Stuart W. Boyd, third officer on the Persia, lost his,* life When, the vessel was torpedoed on December 30th last. ' The news came as a severe shock, ,the parents believing him to be on j'the transport. Dongola. ■ Mr Boyd was at one time m the • service of the Tyser Line, on the Star of Australia. , NEW ZEALAND MAILS. Wellington, March 31. The High Commissioner reports that some bags -of, New Zealand mails were on board the Channel steamer Sussex, but he cannot say at present' whether any pf them were amongst those destroyed by the explosion. .ABOUT ONEfTHIRD SAVED. , ; Wellington, Aprjl■. \i.".'■'■■ ..The High Commissioner reports that ninety-four bags of, mails foi jfew Zealand were.on board the Sussex, and that only about one-third were saved. •" .' ' '
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 99, 1 April 1916, Page 5
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154New Zealand Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 99, 1 April 1916, Page 5
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