MARINER’S DYING REQUEST
ASHES TO BE CAST OK THE OCEAN. Auckland, January 3. A strange death-bed 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 Syd-ney-Vancouver service, who died recently at Vancouver. Before his death Captain Johnson asked that his remains should be taken to Sydney, which had formerly been his home, and that they should be scattered on the sea outside the harbour he know so well. When the liner left Vancouver deceased’s relatives entrusted the urn to the keeping of the ship’s eomimander, Captain R. Crawford, who will hand it over to the right authorities ivpon the vessel’s arrival at Sydney. The intention is to scatter the ashes on the waters just off Sydney Heads, and to fulfil the last wishes of an old mariner.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3582, 4 January 1927, Page 3
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149MARINER’S DYING REQUEST Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3582, 4 January 1927, Page 3
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