A TRAGIC DEATH.
SCHOONER’S VOYAGE FOR DOCTOR. By Telegraph.—Press Association Auckland, Last Night. The schooner Ceclia Sudden, en route from Newcastle to Peru, with coal, arrived in port to-day. The boatswain, Mervyn Lloyd (21), whose mother resides at Waihi, fell from aloft a distance of 70 feet on Friday, breaking an arm and both legs and receiving other injuries. The schooner was then 500 miles east of Cape Maria, and it was decided to make for Auckland. Lloyd died fifteen minutes before a doctor boarded the vessel.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1921, Page 5
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87A TRAGIC DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1921, Page 5
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