MAN KILLED ON MAST
AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST DIES TRAGICALLY SERVING AS A SEAMAN (United Service) Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Wed. When the Finnish sailing ship Grace Harwar was voyaging between New Zealand and Cape Horn, Ronald Walker, an Australian journalist who was serving as a seaman, went out on the topgallant yard to clear a fouled gasket, but the upper yard carried away and he was killed instantly. His watch-mates brought the body down with great difficulty, and it was buried at sea next day. Mr. Walker was formerly on the staff of the I-lobart “Mercury.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 760, 5 September 1929, Page 9
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95MAN KILLED ON MAST Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 760, 5 September 1929, Page 9
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