WANT'OF RESPECT

Evening Post, Issue 12, 14 July 1936, Page 11

WANT'OF RESPECT

A COUNTRY FUNERAL

CORTEGE DISTURBED

(By Telegraph) (Special to the "Evening Post.")

PALMERSTON N., This Day.

The action of the driver of a large horse float in breaking into the cortege of a funeral 'and travelling with it for some two miles at Feilding on Sunday afternoon, offered a striking contrast1 to the act,of General Sir J. Maxwell, of the Egyptian Command, who, when reviewing troops who were marching past in Cairo in January, 1915, stopped the proceedings and broke the line to allow the funeral of an Egyptian to pass on its way to the ancient city cemetery.

The action of the horse float driver was not the only disconcerting feature of the funeral, and want of feeling for others by "road hogs" lis to be lamented. Next to disturb the proceedings Was a "snorting" motor-cycle in charge of a youthful driver who came along the highway at a high speed and with a nonchalant bearing. The cortege meant nothing to him as he swept past with the exhaust of the machine releasing head-splitting noises.

Later, as a contrast to the earlier happenings which were so distressing to the mourners, two Feilding High School boys dismounted from their cycles, and, with caps in hand, stood at attention as the lengthy cortege passed. . • .