RAILWAYMAN’S FUNERAL
Eighty guards and porters in uniform paid their last respects to the late Mr. Michael Thomas Melican yesterday afternoon. The cortege left the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ellerslie, at 2 o’clock for the Waikaraka Cemetery, the guards and porters lining the route from the church door to the carriage. Mr. J. G. Rickerby, District Traffic Manager of Railways, Mr. B. C. Housley, Chief Traffic Clerk, and Mr. W. Hartley, Chief Passenger Clerk and Mr. P. Barry, of the advertising staff, represented the different branches of the railway staff at Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 13
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93RAILWAYMAN’S FUNERAL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 13
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