HALCOMBE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9176, 20 June 1908, Page 5

HALCOMBE.

From Our Own Correspondent. Clarence Page, 22 years of age, and youngest son of Mr and Mrs W. Pago, Junction Road, died from heart disease at Masterton Hospital on the 16th inst., and the mortal remains were forwarded by train and received by his sorrowing parents and brothers here on Wednesday, the interment taking place on Friday, the 19th inst., when a large nutnber of family friends and sympathisers attended the funeral. Much sympathy is felt and expressed for the parents and relatives, the former being amongst the oldest and most respected of our settlers,anclthis last bereavement makes the fourth of their family that death has claimed. As the mother has only ’Jar tialiy recovered from a dangerous illness this additional trouble makes her burden especially hard to bear and we all know bow impossible it is for others though willing to assuage her grief. The Rev. Irmes-Jones sympathetically read the services for the dead. I was pleased to note that Mr Robson, beadmsater of our school, remembering that the deceased was an old Halcombe school boy, had the flag at half-mast and the children lined up as the cortege passed by.