The Late Sergeant Twomey, Onehunga

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6, 6 February 1908, Page 15

The Late Sergeant Twomey, Onehunga

The remains of the late Sergeant Twomey (says the * Manawatu Daily Times ') were laid to rest in the , Fedlding Cemetery yesterday afternoon (January 30), and were followed by a large concourse of friends and relatives of decrased. The body was brought to Feilding by the three o'clock train and was then transferred into the" ♦ f L arse u nd immediately conveyed to the cemetery .via ,f the Catbholid Church, where the Rev. Father O'Mfeara officiated. A posse of police in uniform,' under Inspector Wilson, Sergts. Bowden and Burke acted as pall bearers. Th- Rev. Father O'Meara also read the burial service at the graves Me. One noticenfole feature of the lengthy cor'ege was the fact that "it contained many ' old rpsidmts of the •district. The. late Sergeant Twomey joined tWe police spr'ice. i*MB7B, and after serving for a>-out two years left the force, subsequently rejoining in inno rnflr nfl - was ■ :>romoted ' •*o the rank of sergeant in l 02 Tt is a^o-ut six or seven years since he was stationed at Feilding.— R.l.P.