WAR GRAVES
PERPETUAL MAINTENANCE FUND Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 23. (Received July 29, at 9.35 a.m.) Canada has agreed to continue the existing contribution for the upkeep of war graves until the end of 1931. After that time she will create an endowment fund, the rorenue from wdiich will suffice for perpetual maintenance. Australia and New Zealand have already arranged to co-operate with Britain’for perpetual maintenance. The total endowment fund of £5,000,000 is based on an estimate of 5s 9d per annum per grave, which also covers the maintenance of memorials to missing men. Tho fund will be vested in trustees appointed by the Governments concerned,— 1 Tho Times.’
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Evening Star, Issue 19005, 29 July 1925, Page 5
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111WAR GRAVES Evening Star, Issue 19005, 29 July 1925, Page 5
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