ASHES TO THE SEA.
MARINER'S LAST WISH. [THE PRESS Specl*! Service.] AUCKLAND, January 8. A strange deathbed request is responsible for the presence on board the Aorangi'of a metal urn containing the cremated remains of Captain C. Gardner Johnson, one of the pioneer shipping men in the Sydney-Vancouver service, who died recently at Vancouver. Before his death Captain Johnson asked that his. remains should bo taken to Sydney,-which had formerly been his home, and that they should be cast into the sea outside tho harbour he knew so well. When tho liner left Vancouver his relatives entrusted the urn to the keeping of the ship's commander, Captain H. Crawford, who will hand it over to the right authorities upon the vessel's arrival at Sydney. Tho intention is to scatter the ashes on the waters just off. Sydney Heads and so fulfil the last wishes of the old mariner. ..-.'..
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 14
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148ASHES TO THE SEA. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 14
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