BURIAL AT SEA
Gisborne Man’s Desire Fulfilled By Telegraph—Press Association. GISBORNE, Feb. 12. The unusual incident of a burial at sea took place in Poverty Bay this afternoon. Mr William Douglas Bruce, one of tho best-known residents of the town, died on Saturday, and by his expressed desire his remains were to be buried at sea. Deceased was a nleinber Of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and after the funeral service had been conducted by a lady member of the church at deceased’s late residence, the remains were removed to a launch which proceeded to some three miles off shore. The engines were then stopped and Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” was recited, and the shell was consigned to the deep.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 53, 13 February 1934, Page 9
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