SIR CHARLES SKERRETT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 21 March 1929, Page 5

SIR CHARLES SKERRETT

FUNERAL IN LONDON ’ MANY TRIBUTES' RECEIVED. MASS AT WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 20. With the coffin before the High Altar, Requiem Mass was celebrated at Westminster Cathedral for Sir ■Cluis. Skerrett. The chief mourners were his sisters, Mrs Compton and Miss Julia and Miss Mary Skerrett. Those present included Sir James Parr, Sir Chas. Holdsworth, Lord Strathspey, Lady Augustus Inkskip, Lord Trevor, Viscount Falkland, Mrs Amery and Colonel Desatge, representing the Dominions office.

The pall bearers were Sir James Parr, Lord Strathspey, Messrs Cecil Wray, James Conchie, Peter Compton and H. Y. Butler. The' interment was at Kensal Green, and the wreaths received included those from the New Zealand Government and people, the law societies of New Zealand, England, Wellington 1 * and Taranaki, and the Union Steamship Company. The ,coffin was covered with the New Zealand flag from the steamer Port Denison.—Australian Press Assn., United Service.