UNION COMPANY'S SENIOR PURSER.
♦ ASHES BURIED AT SKA. (I'RK.SS ASSOCIATION TEI.EGKAU ) WELLINGTON, December 13. A tribute to Mr O. H. Gallon, the Union Company's ■ senior purser, who wpent over 40 years in the Company's intercolonial steamers on tho Tasuian Sea, a stretch of water which he crossed more often than any other person, was paid, at mid-day on Sunday by the master of the Monowai, Captain Davey, and the rest of tho ship's company. Exactly half way between Sydney and Wellington the ship was stopped and as the hour of noon struck a casket containing the ashes of Mr Gillon, and bearing the names of all who had been shipmates with him, was wrapped in the company's house flag and committed to the deep. I* was a brie,f but im P ressive ceremony. No service was held as the funeral "service was conducted at the time of the cremation.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20729, 14 December 1932, Page 18
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