Pioneer's Funeral
Many friends of the late Mr. John Briggs Clark, a Matawai pioneer, whose death oceured in Gisborne on Monday, assembled yesterday to pay their lasi respects to the deceased and the funeral was one of the largest
| seen in Gisborne for a long time. Sixty-eight motor ears left from Williams street following the service i in the chapel, while many more wore lined up in Roebuck road for the ; procession and a further fleet of cars (joined at Taruhcru. The service in ! the chapel and the last rites at the ! graveside were conducted by the Rev. B. R. Spence, followed bv a masonic
service at which Brother F. E. Allen, chaplain of Turanganui Lodge, officiated. The pall bearers, members of the Masonic order, were Messrs, A. C. Langford, C. Gordon, J. Strawbridge, G. T. Bull, T. Robertson and C. Berridge.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 16 November 1939, Page 6
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142Pioneer's Funeral Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 16 November 1939, Page 6
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