MILITARY CEMETERY
At Tuesday night's meeting of the Borough Council the following letter was received from the Under-Seerc-tary of the Department of Lauds and Survey :•— "Refening to your letter of the Wthiiwt 1 have to .inform you that in the year 1890, 5 acres ;) roods 21 perches was reserved for cemetery purposes* and placed under the control ot tk Tauranga Borough Council, as trustees, by warrant published in the $Z Gazette of the 17th August, 1903, page 11)92. After the issue of the warrant mentioned it was ascertained that the cemetery was Dot Crown property aud the portion in which the graves are situated, containing i acres and 27 perches, was, therefore, taken under the Public Works Act as a ecmetciy by proclamation published in Gazette of Ist August, 190?. A warrant giving the Borough Council authority to control the cemetery and appointing them trustees under section 4 of the CemetnejAcfc> 11)08, requires to be issued. Will you pleas? state if the Council tow a«v objection to the, issiM of a tafrnut, as' suggested,* or if they WWWpwfer the titlo to the land to w vested in them for cemetery purP«<s. The laud, of course, is a ' awctery aud uot a Horoudi endow-
It vas decided on the motion of w>M»vor, seconded by Cr Adams, u 'at fto government be asked to Kswuwarnint giviug the Council Mt«wty to control the cemetery nnd Anting them triwtees.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6021, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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235MILITARY CEMETERY Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6021, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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