THE PENGUIN DISASTER.
BODIES RECOVERED. By Telegraph—Press Association, WELLINGTON, February 21. At the scene of the Penguin wreck this afternoon another body, identified as that of Noel White, a passenger from Blenheim, came ashore two miles on the city side of Oterangi Bay. The body recovered yesterday has been identified as that of Edwin Herbert Hall, second cook on the Penguin. His father resides at Hope, in the Nelson district. The remains will be interred in Wellington. The body picked up on Friday and stated to be that of George Cook is now stated by the police to be Forth Rotherham Cooke, aged 20, son of Mr Cooke, solicitor, Wanganui, where the remains are being sent for burial. The relief fund is now over £l,lOO. A benefit matinee of the "Red Mill' yesterday by the Williamson Opera Company brought in nearly £3OO.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3120, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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142THE PENGUIN DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3120, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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