JUDGE AND CREMATION.
LATE SIR BASSETT EDWARDS. DISPOSAL OF THE ASHES. [from our ow>- correspondent.] SYDNEY. Sept. 15. The wish was expressed by Sir Worley Bassett Edwards, retired New Zealand Judge, who died recently in Sydney, that his body should be cremated and the ashes "scattered to the waves of the Harbour of Sydney or of the adjacent ocean." The late Judge took particular care, too, that the independence characteristic of him in life should be preserved in death. "I desire," he directed in his will, "that there shall be no religious ceremony or formal ceremony of any kind in connection with my death or with the disposal of my body or the ashes thereof and that no one whomsoever shall at any time use, or exhibit, any conventional sign of regret or sorrow for my death, whether by change of, or addition to, attire, or any part thereof, or in any other manner whatsoever."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19748, 22 September 1927, Page 12
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