INDIAN HOCKEY PLAYER’S GRIEF
RELATIVES LOST IN QUETTA EARTHQUAKE [Pik United Pans Amociatio*.] CHRISTCHURCH, June 28. A tragic incident marred the farewell at the Christchurch railway station last evening to the visiting Indian hockey players and the New Zealand team, who were leaving for Wellington. Just before the boat train pulleA out Harbail Sihgh, the turbanned Sikh member of the party, was handed a cablegram telling him of the death of his sister and brother-in-law in the Quetta earthquake. Later Singh, a grief-stricken figure, could be seen standing apart from his friends at the rail of the Rangatira as she pulled out from the dock.
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Evening Star, Issue 22067, 28 June 1935, Page 8
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105INDIAN HOCKEY PLAYER’S GRIEF Evening Star, Issue 22067, 28 June 1935, Page 8
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