BODY GOING TO CHINA
So that he may rest with his ancestors in his native country, the body of Mr Young Sing Kow, head of the firm of Chew Lee Young, Chinese merchants, of Christchurch, who died from pneumonia a few days ago, is being embalmed by Dir. A B. Pearson, at fhe Christchurch Public Hospital, and will be sent to China. While it is the desire of all Chinese, irrespective of religion, that their spirits may join those of their ancestors, it is a costly mailer to send a hotly from New Zealand to China; and it is said that this is the. first time, at least for very many years, that, it has happened. Tho process of embalming will take about a week.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 211, 20 August 1934, Page 4
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