INDIAN'S ASHES
PYRE ON TOWN COMMON MELBOURNE, Jan. 25. Before. Gaudet >Singh died in the Wanganitla Hospital lie expressed the wish that his ashes should lie taken to India and cast into tlu> arms of Mother Ganges.
An application was made to the Victorian Health Department for permission for Gaudet Singh's body to bo burnt on a pyre on the town common, and the cremation was carried out yevstorday. His compatriots will journey to India to perform the iinul rites.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17175, 4 February 1930, Page 11
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80INDIAN'S ASHES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17175, 4 February 1930, Page 11
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