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LAST GOOD DEED. YOUNG SAMARITANS KILLED. LONDON November 7. ) Even* day two Nottingham boys— Samuel Tring, aged 19, and Alfred Scarlett, aged seven—were in the habit of helping a blind man, Mr Sawdon, to board his tramcar. The other morning they did so as usual. The driver of a motor bus, thinking the boys wanted to board the tramcar, drove past. The boys ran for the pavement, but the dnveeipulled up too late. Both boys were killed.
STRANGE FUNERAL. WOMAN PLANS CEREMONY. ■ LONDON, November 7. Wearing blue veils and white dresses designed by Mrs -T. L. Parker before she died, six choir girls followed her coffin, which was covered with a royal blue pall made by herself, to Poirtian Church. Cornwall. Mrs Parker planned all the details of her funperal and designed the mourning cards. The mourners were her husband, who is vicar of Lanteglos-by-Fowey, and her brother-in-law. After a hymn of praise, which she chose, had been sung, her coffin was taken out to sea on a tiyi, and the remains and the wreaths were committed to the deep. Tiie pal] was taken back to the church for future funerals.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1930, Page 7
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