FLOWER-FILLED GRAVE.
COSTERMONGERS’ CURIOUS MARK OF RESPECT. At the funeral of Mrs Louisa Kelly, a 34-year-old Olapliam costermonger, at Mitcham, Surrey, mourners lilled the grave with wreaths and other floral tokens. One was in the form of a costermonger’s barrow. A costermonger jumped into the grave and trampled down the flowers, while another picked up the sexton’s shovel and began to fill in the gravo with soil. Ilis explanation was that they did it out of respect for the dead. Later the flowers were removed and the grave filled in in the erriir.ary way.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 11
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94FLOWER-FILLED GRAVE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 11
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