HONEYMOON TRAGEDY
HARBOUR BOARD MANAGER (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday Advice has been received in Wellington from the Chateau Tongariro of the death there suddenly early this afternoon of Mr Arthur George Barnett, general manager of the Wellington Harbour Board. He collapsed while playing a game of table tennis and died shortly after. Mr Barnett and Miss Florence Penney, daughter of Mrs C. A. Penney, of Wellington, were married in the Terrace Congregational Church yesterday, and they were on their honeymoon when Mr Barnett’s death occurred. Mr Barnett was a vice-president of the New Zealand Football Association and the Wellington Football
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 8
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101HONEYMOON TRAGEDY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 8
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