TAWA FLAT DISASTER
THE LAST SAD HITES,
IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL,
(Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day,
The funeral of the victims of the air tragedy, Messrs F. Gressor and G. B. S. King, yesterday afternoon, was attended by large numbers, and the streets in the vicinity of the mortuary chapel in Taranaki Street were lined with people. Before the cortege left the chapel a service was conducted by the Rev. A. T. Bristed-Page, Vicar of Miramar, who also conducted the service at the crematorium. The pall-
bearers were members of the newlyformed aviation section of the Legion of Frontiersmen, of which both deceased were members. Members of the Legion also furnished the guard of honour.
The caskets were draped with the Union Jack, and were almost hidden by flowers. On the top of each hearse was a flower-bedecked miniature aeroplane. About 66 motor cars formed the cortege. Among those who attended the funeral were the Minister of Defence, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, representing the Government; Squadron-Leader T. M. Wilkes, Director of Air Services, repro-, senting the Civil Aviation Branch of the Defence Department; the Mayor, Mr T. C. A. Hislop, president of the Wellington Aero Club; officials and many club members; members of the managements and staffs of Charles Begg and Co., Ltd., and Crawley, Ridley and Co., Ltd., employers of Messrs King arid Grosser respectively; the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association and the Wellington Branch of the Navy League.
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Northern Advocate, 29 October 1932, Page 10
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