OFFICIAL DROWNED
ACCIDENT AT SUNDAY ISLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Minister of Public Works, Mr Semple, has been advised of the death by drowning of Mr W. H. Carter, who was recently transferred to Raoul Island (Sunday Island) in the Kermadec group, in charge, for the time being of the work of establishing an aeradio and meteorological reporting station.
An interim report received by the Minister states that the island experienced a hurricane on Sunday last, and on Monday, while on the foreshore, Mr Carter was washed off the rocks by an exceptionally large wave. Mr Carter is believed to have had relatives in England.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 5
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108OFFICIAL DROWNED Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 5
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