Pacific Freighte[?]
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Suspected Murder Pacific Freighte[?]
WHEN the Union Steamship trans-Pacific freighter Wav arrived in Auckland on tember 2 the vessel was board© police who began an investign of a portion of the crew’s ace modation on the boat deck w had been gutted by a fire at Pap wharf on August 20. It was bro under control in about 20 mil by the ship’s fire-fighting dep ment.
It started in the donkeym cabin, completely gutting it, pirn other cabins, a mess-room ai bathroom.
When the flames were quelled body of a Canadian AB, August Kure, was found inj donkeyman’s cabin. It is all that he had been strangled.
The Papeete police, after a liminary investigation, declared! as Kure was a British sm aboard a British ship the rm was outside their jurisdiction.