O'NEILL'S POINT CEMETERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1927, Page 8

O'NEILL'S POINT CEMETERY.

lIOPEI.r>S NK<;i.F.< T

When the committee of the munril reported last liijjlit to \)ic I>e\.inport Bnrnugh Council that it had in-pe<-ied O'Xoiir* Point Cemetery, but h.ii no recommendation lo make. Mr. F. ■'. Elli*don queried Tup oVri-ion. "S'lrely something can !•<• done." he »ai-l. "•].:» is the worst cemetery in N< w Zealand. nnd I beiicve that outride puMir *upj«ort woiiM a."i*t tin* romiri] :1 i\ la. J .1 M-honio of iiiiprov4>nicnt." The Mayor. Mr. 1".. Aldts.l S e. h-umnl that llio cemetorv had <;<>t into n ln-'-o----less state. "Blecklwrry. t«>i ">••:. -<u-! nishc* have taken j»o>if-«ion. . n.l 1 !•<■ liovc that it would tako at lea-t ilOiwi to r*"tore it to anything i:kt- p<-w><l onler." He further explnimM in an*wcr to questions that the ceinet«Ty acoouni hail about £lrio in cre«iit Tl.e money •>r!n.i|lv re*H»ived for **al<> of Ivirial lot* was absorbed in sexton's fee= and ; n«M<lcnial«. and par: of the re«r-onfi-bility for the unkempt condition of th«« cemetery reste<l upen the individual owners of burial plot*.

Both the Mayor «"d Mr. EHi«-d«n ttated that th«"> - had Mime private offer* <•;' help ■.".- nuitT. and it Mil- re«ol\o<l l>< niak* , i". public that the council would b< , plca»ed to m operate with anyone to improve the existing state, of affairs.