Engineer Lost Overboard
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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Sept. 30.
VI/'HILE the small inter-insular motor ” vessel Tui Kauvaro was en route from Levuka to Suva on September 7, the engineer, Mr. “Nobby” Clark, aged 50, disappeared overboard. Despite a search lasting some hours, no trace of him was found.
Mr. Clark had been sitting on the rail in the early evening, as was his habit, and it is thought that he had a seizure and fell overboard.
A sad feature of the tragedy is the fact that Mr. Clark’s eldest daughter was on board at the 1 time, making the round trip with her father during the school holidays. Mr. Clark was an Englishman Mr. E. Taylor, 0.8. E., District Officer at Salamaua, New Guinea, and Mrs.
Taylor, arrived in Sydney in September on short furlough, most of which will be spent in Australia. Mrs. Taylor is still suffering from the effects of the severe accident she experienced on the Morobe goldfield last year when a plank bridge collapsed and she fell into a water race and fractured her leg.