MOTHER'S SAD MISSION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22198, 27 August 1935, Page 15

MOTHER'S SAD MISSION

SEEING SON'S GRAVE ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA An Englishwoman, Mrs. Emily Clapp, who arrived at Darwin recently, was on a sad mission to Northorn Territory. She was going 200 miles inland by train to see the grave of her son, Constablo Arthur R. Clapp, of the Northern Territory mounted police, which is at Katherino. Mrs. Clapp travelled from England and round the eastern Australian coast to Darwin. She said that she was a Lancashire woman, and her only son Arthur emigrated to Australia when quite a young man. After working in Victoria he joined tho Northern Territory mounted police force, and was stationed at Katherine. One day he seized an automatic pistol from a man and placed tho weapon in his belt, but it exploded, wounding him fatally. He died on November 5, 1927, and was buried at Katherine.

After her son's death Mrs. Clapp formed the resolution to see his grave. "T felt that I could not rest until I had travelled to Australia to see his grave," she said. "It took a long time to make tho necessary inquiries and save up the money for the trip, and now I am nearly there." Mrs. Clapp is 62 years of ago and grey-headed. She hopes to go back to England. Tn Darwin Mrs. Clapp was tho guest of Mrs. A. V. Stretton, wife of the superintendent of police.