PLANTING OF TREES.
THE MEMORIAL TO MR SAVAGE. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 5. A feature of the Arbor Day celebrations in Auckland to-morrow will be the planting by citizens of an instalment of several hundred trees at the burial place at Bastion Point of New Zealand’s first Labour Prime Minister (Mr Savage). With this planting will begin the work of constructing the memorial park and the garden of remembrance in which is .to be erected the monument to Mr Savage. The cost of the memorial is to be borne by the New Zealand Labour Party. The memorial park and the garden of remlenibranco comprise about 18 acres, and contain a sunken garden and a children’s playground.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 252, 6 August 1941, Page 7
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