WAITED 30 YEARS
LINER BRINGS TRAGEDY. When an Atlantic liner arrived at Plymouth one day last month it brought tragedy to a woman who stood excitedly on the quay. Mrs Linton, of Woolacombe, North Devon, had not seen her 78-year-old brother, Mr Philip Pile, for 30 years. For 50 years he had carried on business in America as a builder, and it was 30 years since he had visited his native land. Mr Pile was travelling in the Aldania to spend his remaining days with his sister. As the tender from the liner drew alongside, Mrs Linton called to her son, who was on board. “Have you got him with you?” Her son nodded. Then he took his mother into a waiting room —and gently broke the news that her brother had died a few hours before. A tiny scratch on the voyage had developed into blood poisoning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 9
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148WAITED 30 YEARS Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 9
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