WAR VETERAN SAVED FROM PAUPER’S GRAVE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18615, 17 November 1928, Page 11

WAR VETERAN SAVED FROM PAUPER’S GRAVE.

(Special to the “ Star/’) WELLINGTON, November 17,

That the South African War Veterans’ Association is still keenly interested in the welfare of those who fought in South Africa is show’n by the part played in saving one of the veterans from a pauper’s grave. Last December the association was approached by Mr C. J. Danahey, who was then over seventy-one, with the request that an effort be made to interest either the New South Wales Government or the Federal Government in granting him an old age pension. He stated that he had served in the New South Wales Bushmen’s Regiment in South Africa, and had also, at the age of thirty-five, been elected to a seat in the Legislative Assembly as the Labour member for Canterbury (New South Wales). These statements were proved to be well founded, and the association was negotiating with the Australian authorities when on T\iesdav last Mr Danahey collapsed at the Wellington Working Men's Club, and he died in the hospital the next day. It was found that he was to be buried as a pauper, but the secretary’ of the association communicated with the War Graves Division, with the result that a plot in the soldiers’ section of the Karori cemetery was set aside for Mr Danahey’s last resting-place. The association undertook to bear the funeral expenses, and the burial took place this morning.