EKETAHUNA
MEMORIAL SERVICE (“Times-Age” Special.) A memorial service was held in the Alfred ton Town Hall on Sunday morning in memory of the late Sergeant Pilot Hylton George, the Anglican Church not being large enough to accommodate the people. The Home Guard paraded and was headed by Territorials in uniform and a soldier on leave from camp. The stage was decorated with pink and rose dahlias, etc. The Rev. G E Williams took for his .sermon “Immortality of the Soul.” Some of the late Sergeant Pilot George’s favourite hymns were sung. Mrs J. M. Hull was accompanist. There were several visitors present from Eketahuna. Personal. Sergeant Pilot Colin Knight, D.F.M., who opened the Bonds for Bombers Week in the Town Hall in Wellington, is a brother of Mrs A. M. Stone-Wigg and a nephew of Mrs T. H. Groves, Tawataia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 5
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140EKETAHUNA Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 5
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