OUR REVERED DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 60, 12 March 1926, Page 7

OUR REVERED DEAD.

WAR GRAVES OF EMPIRE.

IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA. WORK OF COMMISSION. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrlgfltj (Received 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, March 11. Progress in caring for and beautifying ■war cemeteries florally and architecturally, in Europe, Asia and Africa, is depicted in a photographic supplement to the annual report of the War Graves Commission, -whose labours, statistically illustrated, were as follows: The Commission cared for 2380 cemeteries comprising 545,498 graves, conducted seven nurseries, supplied nearly seven million plants, trees and shrubs, purchased 360,000 bulbs, planted fortynine miles of hedges and forty-one acres of grass, and chemically treated 97,000 headstones. The report disclosed that isolated British remains continue to be found, the number last year being 4100, mostly discovered by organised gangs digging the gTound searching for shells and war material. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales sent a message to the Commissioners expressing his gratification that the Governments of Britain, Canada and Australia have agreed to endow the Commission, and observing with, satisfaction that other Empire Governments are considering a similar course. —(Eeuter.)