LATE MRS. PANKHURST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 June 1928, Page 7

LATE MRS. PANKHURST.

SCENES AT HER FUNERAL.

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.)

LONDON, June 18.

Leaders of the women’s movement, including Mrs Baldwin, Lady Astor, Mrs Despard, Miss Pethick Lawrence, Laura Knight, and Flora Drummond, attended at Mrs Pankhunst’s fuenral at St. John’s. Westminster, close to the scene of the stormiest episode in the suffragette campaign. Tlioar were also •scores of elderly women wejaring brooches symbol's who suffered imprisonment, some even wearing their old campaign clothes. There were touchino- .scenes at the graveside at Brompton cemetery. Here Chmsta.bel •vno Svlvin. Pankhurst watolied the coffin being lowered as a woman dipped l a - ge purple, . groan and white flag to the earth.