SUDDEN COLLAPSE
DEATH OF TASMANIAN PREMIER FOLLOWING ON HEART ATTACKS. DURING BRIEF VISIT TO MELBOURNE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE. June 11. After two heart attacks the Premier of Tasmania, Mr Albert George Ogilvie, K.C., who was passing through Melbourne at the weekend on his way to Canberra to attend a loan council meeting, died suddenly in Warburton, a tourist resort 50 miles from Melbourne last night. Mr Ogilvie intended leaving for Canberra today. He visited Warburton and played golf in the afternoon, when he complained of feeling unwell. At night he had another attack and died within a few minutes. Mr Ogilvie was a former political colleague of the late Mr J. A. Lyons. The body will be sent by air to Tasmania today. BODY CONVEYED BY AIR NEW PREMIER SWORN IN. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) HOBART, This Day. A large gathering met the air liner carrying Mr A. G. Ogilvie’s body from Melbourne. Mr E. Dwyer Gray has been sworn in as Premier. He will combine the duties of Premier and Treasurer until the State Parliamentary Labour Party meets to elect a new leader.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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186SUDDEN COLLAPSE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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