SUBSTANTIAL MEAL.
FOOD FOR DEPARTED SOUL. A CURIOUS CUSTOM. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT LONDON, Eeb. 16. It is revealed ' that at Torquay a woman had been in the habit of pro. viding food for the soul of a departed friend who was buried in a vault at Paignton cemetery. Recently the vault was sealed up, hut the woman erected an awning to keep from the sight of the curious the food, which always consisted of a sumptions meal of game joints fancy cakes, and fruit, and there were always flowers. What happened to the food in the past can only be conjectured. Friends of the dead woman have now obtained the permission of the Home Office to remove the body elsewhere.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 February 1926, Page 5
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121SUBSTANTIAL MEAL. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 February 1926, Page 5
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