LYTTELTON CEMETERY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19787, 27 November 1929, Page 15

LYTTELTON CEMETERY.

t-> r*« foirot of thr rsrx I ant writing this !•->llr ut the : chat It wifl come under fft»- noliee •■i -"iiif oi the members «M the Lyttei- •. h. Ik, 'ugh Con in li. "1 •> in< u i» a r,. ,ri. l»;*r that l.\ t u-lton r-e* i■ hj»» e not ■••rniK'ti ■ deputation to nail on the t in< .1 The Pnbh< C-mf-tfri i> in a floraWp condirion ami it is a uis.i' •» to the To.- tew u\m ki* (i their graces re>[>e< table are repaid by ii-' 111 r» ii the ara-.s m«l thi-t'e seed own ov. r them. Now- :• n<i again a in.it> is put on to clear th»- it-inctery. H* *' t\ *» i n!y a few dav-. though there i- tvork ». nough to keep a dozen men .■nu>'o>cd lor a tortniiiht. .»me 11 me ago an item a spared in th" "Lvttelton News" of your paper to the effect that a number of unemployed had ►•en given the work »f clearing the roads and reserves of life borough ot" noxio'is weeds, i think it »•> a great pity that th«v had not Wen sent to the cemetery, where ' annual ' weed* await them. I think I may take the liberty oj saving that the Lytteitoii | Public Cemetery is the least tared (or (as far as the (*oun<*il is . .ia.--n.-i in I Canterbury. Another distressing thine is this: I I There are one or two soldiers buried i in the cemetery, and their graves are a pit ture of negle< t. We read of and | *#«» beautiful photos, of soldiers temei iw av in Europe. Thev are like i glorious gardens. the be-t that men \ can now give to our departed heroes. Invariably the accompanying artidvs. ! «»r that the graves are cared tor a* I much a« if the* were in the soldiers ! home towns, f am pleased to think i that m some places our soldiers are not ; forgotten In Lyttelton the grave*, are i ontv tended hy Nature, and the tare and attention that tho*e graves away i n Kurope receive is far Setter than that whieh I- fi' en the-® m our own town of Lyttelton. I do not see w l>v the Council i annot | k~ep a man to look after tho cemetery. jOn Anrac Day the Councillors Mng ' K ipli"St's "Recessional'' "Lest we tor- ' g „ t _U*t we forget." Aooarentlv they i hare forgotten.—Yours, etc.. ! LYTTELTOM.VX November 25th. 15*29 fThe Mayor of I-yttelton. when shown , this letter, said that " Lytteltnnian'» f remarks are absurd. The path* are kept * (tfc of grass and weeds. hat the | correspondent evidently complain* about : is, he said, the state *f some of the j graves, and it is not the duty of the J Court i! to tmep these in order. Last ; week a visitor to the cemetery remarked ' on the general improvements made, and | the tidy manner ;n whieh the snrmundJ »ogs are kept]