TRIBUTE TO DEAD PURSER
ASHES COMMITTED TO DEEP.
CEREMONY IN .MID-TASMAN. ,By Telegraph.—Pre»» Aeiocintioa. Wellington, Last Ni|ht A unique tribute, to the late Mr. O. H. Gillon, the Union Company’s senior purser, who spent over 40 years-in the com- , pany’s inter-colonial ■ steamers .oh ® Tasman Sea, a stretch of water he- W ■- crossed more often than any other Person, was paid at midday on Sunday by the master-Of the Monowai, Captan Davey, and the rest of the, ships 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 dead man 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 was . ,at. the time of the cremation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1932, Page 6
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