MILITARY FUNERAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20065, 11 October 1939, Page 10

MILITARY FUNERAL

LATE CAPT. MACIVER MOTOR SMASH VICTIM N.Z. SCOTTISH OFFICER (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The funeral of the former officer commanding at Wellington of the New Zealand Scottish Regiment, Captain A. H. Maclver, who was killed in a motor accident at Burnham, near Christr church, on Saturday night, took place in Wellington yesterday with full military honours. It was preceded by a service at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. Captain Maclver had joined the special military force and was serving with No. 4 Company, Fourth Machine-Gun Battalion. Before joining the Scottish Regiment he was pipe president of the pipes and and drums of the First Battalion of the Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own). Both regiments and the special force were represented at the funeral. Among those who attended were the actingPrime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, the Chief of the General Staff, Major-General J. E. Duigan, Major J. W. Andrew, V.C., representing the officer commanding the Central Military District, and a unit of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The pro-cathedral was crowded and a large number of people lined the street. At the crematorium a firing party supplied by the Special Force fired three volleys. A bugler supplied by the military band of the Wellington Regiment sounded the “Last Post,” and one supplied by the Special Force the “Reveille.” The pipes and drums of the Wellington Regiment played the laments “The Land o’ the Leal” and “The Flowers of the Forest.”