ARRIVAL AT LYTTELTON
CHRISTCHURCH’S HOMAGE Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. The ferry wharf at Lyttelton was strangely still this morning when the steamer drew alongside bearing the body of Sir Joseph Ward. The coffin was lowered amid a reverent silence, the ship’s officers standing at the salute and the mourners on the wharf waiting bareheaded. Eight railway guards raised the coffin into the mortuary van and the train steamed out. At Christchurch station hundreds paid their last respects and again there was a deep silence along the whole platform. A guard of honour of 14 returned soldiers marched up and stood silently the bugler sounded the Last Post. Then quickly the train steamed out. Thu.*; Christchurch paid its homage to the memory of the statesman.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 12
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124ARRIVAL AT LYTTELTON Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 12
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