1100 Graves To Be Moved
,f The Press” Special Service
AUCKLAND, December 20.
The removal of remains from the historic Grafton Road Cemetery would start “in a quiet way” next month, said the district commissioner for the Ministry of Works, Mr E. A. Flynn.
Approval had been received from the Ministry of Health to move about 1100 graves in the path of an access road to the southern motorway. Mr Flynn said the job would take a long time and be fitted into a three-year programme to coincide with other road work. Relatives of almost all those buried in the cemetery —including soldiers who died in the Maori Wars—have agreed to the remains being cremated. They will then be placed in a common grave in a part of the cemetery unaffected by the motorway. But Mr Flynn said that “a very few” people had asked for remains of their relatives to be re-interred separately. The grave of Governor Hobson will not be affected.
Mr Flynn said the removal of graves had been held up so the Symonds street link to the motorway could be completed before Christmas.
The new section will be opened on Monday. The Newmarket viaduct
will then become two-way, and the free left turn off Symonds street on to the motorway would ease traffic movement out of the city.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31248, 21 December 1966, Page 15
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