COMMITTED TO THE DEEP
STRIKING MARINE TRIBUTE UNION COMPANY'S OLDEST PURSER. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, December 13. A notable tribute to Mr 0. H. Gillon, the Union Company’s senior purser, over 40 years in the company's intercolonial steamers on the Tasman Sea, a stretch of water which he crossed more often than any other person, was paid at mid-day on Sunday by the master of the Monowai (Captain Davey) and the rest of the ship’s company. Exactly half way between Sydney and Wellington the ship was stopped, and as the hour of noon struck the casket containing the ashes of the deceased and bearing the names of all who had been shipmates with him was wrapped in the company’s house flag and committed to the deep. It was a brief but impressive ceremony. No service was held as the funeral service had been conducted at the time of the cremation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21827, 14 December 1932, Page 9
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