SERVICE AT SEA.
FOR CLIPPER’S COMPANY
FLORAL TRIBUTES
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 24. On the arrival bf the Matua today Captain Prosser said the memorial service held aboard the M.atua late on the afternoon of J anuary 14 over the spot where the crew of the Samoan Clipper perished was arrranged through the agency of Union Airways. The service, as already described in the New Zealand papers, was most impressive. Wreaths were lowered by the following: Mr S. G. Smith, Resident Commissioner in the Cook Islands, for the New Zealand Government; Mrs A. C. Turnbull, wife of the acting-Administrator of Western Samoa, for the Samoan Administration; Miss Te Pure, for the people of Rarotonga ; Mr Page, a clergyman, for the Tongan Government; Captain Prosser, for Union Airways; Mr L. J. Warren, for the Union Steam Ship Company ; the first officer, Mr Fisher, for the Auckland Harbour Board ; the chief engineer, Mr Knewstubb, for the master, officers, and the crew of the Matua; and the chief steward, Mr Brown, for Mrs Smythe, of Apia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 7
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174SERVICE AT SEA. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 7
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