SPIRITUAL AID FOR WHALERS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19979, 14 July 1930, Page 13

SPIRITUAL AID FOR WHALERS.

I TUB EDITOR OF THE PEES 3. Iu reply to the letter ot' Mr I, let ino state that the figures d in your report are almost we'rd quoted by my friend who I to New Zealand after a whallast March. As Mr Aagaard , however, the figures are not try importance, but I do object suggestion that any stigma is ipou any of the crews or ninsbc whole tone of the before Presbytery is that rcli give help, not condemn, ding the burial services, 1 disstated that captains for the rt do fittingly celebrate burial it that a case has been known bat was considered a fitting yas not given Mv reason for ing this was to show that a ry would be able to give full rites if desired. No accusn:J no attempt to lower the »>f any of the whalers was in 1 If my remarks, as reported columns, have jjiven any one 0 same impression that Mr hits received, I hope that this ill correct it ur correspondent will re-read ion submitted he will Ree that 1 was to collect full infnrmai to render all spiritual aid ■ Sush being the case, his letmelv and lie is to be thanked gdjiformation especially ; th» pi concerning previous work kL—Yonrs etc., j J. CRAWFORD McCAW. j lanso, ' V ilT'l'th. 1930.