ARBOR DAY PLANTING
BASTION POINT PARK MR. SAVAGE’S GRAVE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A feature of the Arbor Day celebrations in Auckland to-morrow will be the planting by citizens of an instalment of several hundred trees at the burial place, Bastion Point, of New Zealand’s first Labour Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. With this planting will commence the work of constructing the memorial park and garden of remembrance in which is to be erected a monument to the late Prime Minister. The cost of the memorial will be borne by the New Zealand Labour Party.
The memorial park and garden of remembrance comprise about 18 acres and contain a sunken garden and a children’s playground.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 6
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