WAIROA AIR TRAGEDY.
FUNERAL OF RIGHT-LIEUTEN-ANT KIGHT. PROCESSION OVER A MILE LONG. (Per United Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE. February 11. The . funeral of Flight-lieutenant Ivan L, Right, who was killed at Waifoa, last Sunday, -was held at Dannevirke this afternoon. The procession was over a mile in length, and was representative of the whole of the professional and business community and residents of the town and country. The Rev. G. B. Stephenson, who conducted the service, paid a tribute to the memory of the deceased, remarking that his first act after the earthquake was to bring those dear to him to a place of safety and he then returned to render service to the community. “It is good,” he said, “ that we have in the country in times of trial men who know no fear.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 16
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134WAIROA AIR TRAGEDY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 16
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