DEBT TO THE BRAVE
TRIBUTE BY BISHOP PRESERVERS OF SAFETY [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] HAMILTON. Monday " One cannot allow such a sad occasion to pass without referring to the further tragedies that have happened in our midst," said Bishop Cherrmgton in the course of a sermon at St. Peter's Cathedral last evening, when he paid a tribute to the late Constable Heeps. " One cannot understand how these occurrences can come about," he added, " but many things are hidden from us. " Bravery and courage such as we have been told of in the last several days are still signs of the manhood of the race, and on such an occasion as this we realise more than before something of the great debt we owe to those who perform the difficult and dangerous tasks to preserve us in safety and to keep the peace of the realm." Bishop Cherrington said he felt sure the prayers of all those in the congregation would ascend on behalf of Constable Heeps and that their supplications would ask for the repose of the soul of him who had committed such deed'*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21938, 23 October 1934, Page 11
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