FOUND IN PAVILION
DEATH OF PORTUGUESE VERDICT OF SUICIDE [ Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Feb. 10. This morning a caretaker found Jose Da Costa dead in the pavilion at the Port Chalmers bowling green. The gas was turned on and asphyxiation had taken place a few hours previously. Seventy-two years ago the deceased was born of Portuguese parents in the Cape Verde Islands, which he left as a lad and came to New Zealand as brass-boy on the Union Company’s steamer Penguin. He served an apprenticeship as a sailmaker at the Union Company's works at Port Chalmers, where he thereafter resided. His wife predeceased him several years ago and lately he had not been in good health. At the Inquest opened this afternoon a verdict of suicide while in ill-health was returned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 11
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131FOUND IN PAVILION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 11
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