LIEUT. BENNET'S FUNERAL.
MELBOI'UNK. -lune Hi. Tlmto «as an impressive scene on thr arrival of the L-arg* Bay with (lip body of Lieutenant .1. M. Be.nnet. As the vessel moored the crew lined tlie decks in man-o'-war style, and other ships in port paid homage to the dead airman. Wharf labourers ceased work and doffed their liiit.s as (he red «n*i;jii was run up to half-meet. All irallic on the waterfront xvus suspended as the coffin was borne to Parliament House, where the body will lie in stati , until to-morrow.— (A.'ami N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1922, Page 7
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