["The Perth Passengers", The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette (Cue, WA), Thursday 04 April 1912, page 3]
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Captain E.P. Maginnis, who was drowned off the launch at Balla Balla, was once an officer of the Yongala, and left to fill a similar position on the Koombana. This again he resigned for the position of wharfinger at Balla Balla. He sent to Victoria for his mother, and she arrived at Balla Balla only two days before the tragedy.
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