MEMORY OF MR. HILL.
A TRIBUTE OF SILENCE.
Before the wool sale began last evening all present stood for a few moments as a mafk of respect for the late Mr. Walter Hill, of Christchurch, who was chairman of the Woolbuyers' Association. A placard marked, "Silence, please," which had been displayed on the stagecurtain by way of preparation for the brief ceremony, remained in place all evening, amid the babel and uproar of the sale—an anachronism which Mr. Hilt would have been among the first to enjoy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19495, 26 November 1926, Page 12
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87MEMORY OF MR. HILL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19495, 26 November 1926, Page 12
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