Readers Write . . .

Northern Advocate, 6 January 1948, Page 4

Readers Write .. .

I was pleased to read the news item headed "Contradiction/’ as it gives me an opportunity of drawing the public's attention to NO WONDER! such notices and their meaning. In the first place the notices “No Shooting,’’ “No Thoroughfare,’’ were put or* the gate by the farmer into whose property the gate leads, and these are the only notices intended to be there. The words "a dedicated road’’ were not put on by the farmer but were added by someone unknown

I would like to make it known that the county council will not pay for any maintenance work carried out inside the gate mentioned, and any work done has been done by Ihe sweat of the farmer. Is is any wonder he puts a “No Thoroughfare” notice up.—G. E. TILLER.

While travelling through Northland I came to Kaeo. I looked for the cemetery to see how old the settlement was. I found the KAEO cemetery to be an CEMETERY eighth of an acre in a corner of a field. The gate to the field was locked and the gate to the cemetery immovable. The cemetery is overgrown with rubbish so that one could not walk in it. The oldest headstone was placed there in the 80's, and the newest, as far as 1 could see. about 1935. Soldiers of the First World War are buried here, too. Hundreds of pounds must have been spent on tombstones and concrete in the past. Is it not a disgrace that for the sake of about two days' work a year, say at a cost of £3. the cemetery should be in such a state. How we have fallen as a race to let this "God’s garden" be so neglected. “LEST WE FORGET.”