STRANGELY STILL
TRIBUTE IN CHRISTCHURCH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The ferry wharf at Lyttelton was strangely still this morning when the steamer Maori drew alongside tearing the body of Sir Joseph Ward. The coffin was lowered amid reverent silence, the ship's officers standing at the salute and the mourners on the wharf standing bareheaded. Eight railway guards raised the coffin into the mortuary van, and the train steamed out. At Christchurch railway station hundreds paid their last respects. Again there was deep silence along the whole platform. A guard of honour of 14 returned soldiers marched up and stood silently while a bugler played the "Last Post." Then quickly the train steamed out. Thus Christchurch paid its homage to the memory of the departed statesman.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 7
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