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SUNNY HEADLAND

OVERLOOKING AUCKLAND HARBOUR MR' SAVAGE'S RESTING PLACE. SITE OF DISUSED FORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.') AUCKLAND. March 27. On a sunny headland that stands clear above the sea overlooking the Tamaki Yacht Club’s clubhouse on the Waterfront Road, Orakei, and close to the remains of old Fort Bastion, Mr Savage will have his last resting-place in Auckland, his adopted home. The site is rich in historical association with early Auckland. It commands a magnificent view of Waitemata Harbour and the islands that stud Hauraki Gulf.

Mr Savage will be buried not far from the early Premier of New Zealand, Sir Frederick Whitaker, who died in 1891 and was also interred in a grave that overlooks the sea in St Stephen’s Cemetery, Parnell. Only one other exPremier, Dr D. Pollen, is buried in Auckland, his grave being at Avondale. i Bastion Point was chosen in the 80's of last century as the site for one of the forts built to meet a possible Russion invasion. Thelfort has long since fallen into disuse, but once it housed two 6in disappearing guns, triumphs of their day, which commanded the harbour entrance and which were constantly manned as recently as- during the Great War. Thus, on a site as appropriate as Point Halswell, Wellington, where Mr Massey was buried, Mr Savage is to be interred on Sunday. Not far away is another - monument to him, the State housing settlement at Orakei, and on the cliffs between his grave and the sea the crimson pohutukawas that welcomed him to Auckland will bloom with each succeeding season, adding a touch of natural beauty to the sacred spot. 1

FINE EXAMPLE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP’S TESTIMONY. MR SAVAGE'S MANY FINE QUALITIES. WELLINGTON, This Day. “In common with my fellow-coun-trymen, I deeply lament the death of our late Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Michael Joseph Savage, whom I held to be a genuine personal friend as well as a great national leader,” said the Most Rev Thomas O’Shea, Catholic Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand, in a statement last night. “In a brief appreciation it is not possible to do justice to his many fine qualities,” said Archbishop O’Shea. “But- if there is one quality I should like to single out it is the remarkable charitableness of the man. In an age that is sadly distinguished by the efforts of so. many in all grades of society to stir up hatred and enmity his life was a rebuke to all who would seek to advance their interests, whether personal or class at the expense of Social amity and concord. If our young country is the poorer in his passing, it is most certainly the richer for the fact that it gave him the opportunity to leave us so fine an example of what a public man should be.” ADD State funeral plans.

SPECIAL TRAINS RAILWAY CONCESSION FARES. WELLINGTON, This Day. Concession fares will be available on the railways to members of the public desirous of attending the funeral ceremonies in Auckland on Sunday, and returning during the weekend. The Minister of Railways, Mr. Sullivan, announced last night that concession fares would be granted to the extent of firstclass travel for second-class fares, and a 25 per cent, reduction of the ordinary fares for those desirous of travelling second class. Trains will leave Wellington on Saturday at 3 p.rn., 3.42 p.rn. and 7.15 p.m.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1940, Page 5

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566

SUNNY HEADLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1940, Page 5

SUNNY HEADLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1940, Page 5

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