NAPIER HARBOUR TRAGEDY
THE LAST BODY RECOVERED.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Napier, January 2.
The body of Norman Wallace Low, the last of the ten watersiders who were drowned in the inner harbour as the result of the collision, was recovered this morning not far from the scene of the tragedy. An inquest was opened and then adjourn**? The body is to be buried to-morrow in the grave in which are buried the other victims of the disaster. FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS. THOUSANDS GRAVESIDE. Napier, Dec. 31. The nine victims of the harbour disaster were buried at Park Island this morning, when services were held in St. Patrick’s and St. John’s Churches. The cortege was over two and a half miles long and the graveside service lasted nearly two hours, weeping women and stolid men crowding round the graveside in thousands. A donation of £250 was. received for the relief fund from the C. and D. Shipping Company.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 7
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