WAR HEROES' GRAVES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 August 1921, Page 5

WAR HEROES' GRAVES

UNSATISFACTORY DEFINITION.

(BY TELEGBAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 11. The City Council to-night adopted a committee's recommendation objecting to the definition of war graves submitted by the Internal Affairs Department. Objection was raised to the restriction of future burials to soldiers who had died of disabilities contracted or aggravate^ by war service later than twelve months after discharge, but who have been continuously under treatment sTnce discharge. The council had set aside ten acres for a returned soldiers' cemetery, and the restriction would allow cjf'very few burials. It . was pointed oirtr lhat war "disability was often recurring, and if was contended that all such cases should be eligible and entitled to the honour of internment in war graves.