MANY MOURNERS
Funerals of Men Drowned In Tauherenikau
Dominion Special Service.
Masterton, June 16.
Large numbers of mourners at the funerals to-day of Hector Sinclair Donald and Norman Murdoch McLeod testified to the esteem in which the two young men, who were drowned on Saturday night in the Wharerota hackwater following an ill-fated duck-shoot-ing expedition up the Tauherenikau River, were held. The funerals were two of the biggest ever seen at either Martinborongh or Featherston, there being about 600 mourners. Donald was buried in tlte Featherston cemetery. the pall-bearers being Messrs. K. McLeod, J. Donald, W. Burt, D. Dunean. N. Sinclair and 1. Donald. McLeod's body was interred in the Martinboroitgh cemetery, the pall-bearers being Messrs. Kenneth McLeod, Ivan McLeod, Gordon McLeod. William McLeod, lan McLeod and Quentin Donald, jun.
The Rev. R. S. Keenan. Presbyterian minister, of Featherston, conducted both Im ritt 1 services.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 223, 17 June 1936, Page 12
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