EARL HAIG’S FUNERAL
(Australian &■ N.Z. Cable Association.) CROWDS PASS COFFIN. LONDON, Feh. (I. There were pulpit tributes to the late Earl Haig throughout the country yesterday. People all day were passing the coffin as it lay in St. Giles’s. Edinburgh at the rate of 2000 an hour. Services were curtailed and the Cathedral kept open until ten o’clock in the evening, to enable the great crowd to
pass. Lady Haig was only able yesterdav to break the news of his lather’s death to her son, who has been ill. sufleiing from appendicitis.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1928, Page 2
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92EARL HAIG’S FUNERAL Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1928, Page 2
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