SOLDIERS' GRAVES
ERECTION OF HEADSTONES.
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day.
A statement made by a correspondent to the "Herald" that the promise that every New Zealand soldier who fell in the Great War would have a headstone placed on his grave was denied yesterday by' Miss E. M. Btatham, inspector of soldiers' graves. "The gentleman who made that statement," Miss Statham said, " is under an entirely wrong impression. TJp to the present 1100 headstones have been erected over soldiers' graves in the North Island alone,' and others aTe being erected every week." The cause' of the delay in some cases had been the failure of relatives to answer inquiries concerning the dead men. Another delay had been experienced through the granite for the headstones not coming to, hand as quickly as was expected. "At present," she said, "we are occupied with war graves only. That is, with the graves of those men who died from injuries received at the war or from its effects." ■•'■-.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 6
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