LATE MR. HINKLER
BURIAL IN BRISBANE COMMONWEALTH HONOURS (Received May 1, 8.55 p.m.) PERTH, May 1 The late Mr. Bert Hinkler's widow arrived at Fremantle to-day. She received a telegram from the Commonwealth Government offering to bring the body to Australia for burial wherever she desired, accompanied by fitting honours to the great airman. A message from Canberra says that the Commonwealth Government's representative in "Western Australia has ascertained that Mrs. Hinkler desires her husband's body to be buried in Brisbane. The Government is.arranging tho matter accordingly. It will provide for a State funeral there on a date to be fixed. A message from Florence says the body of Mr. Hinkler is to bo temporarily buried in the Protestant cemetery there, pending a possible decision to send it to Bundaberg.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21480, 2 May 1933, Page 9
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