TRIBUTE TO SHIP’S PURSER.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 13. A unique tribute to tire late Air O. H. Gillon, the Union Company's senior purser, who spent over 40 years in the company's intercolonial steamers on the Tasman Sea —a stretch of water which he had crossed more often than any * other person—was paid at midday on Sunday by the master of the Alonowai (Captain Davey) and the rest of the ship's company. Exactly half-way between Sydney and Wellington the ship was stopped and as the hour of noon struck tho casket containing the ashes of deceased, and hearing the names of nil who had been shipmates with him, was wrapped in the company’s house flag and committed to the deep. It was a brief but impressive ceremony. No service was held as the funeral service was conducted at the time of tho cremation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 6
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144TRIBUTE TO SHIP’S PURSER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 6
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