WHAT TAURANGA HAS DONE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 August 1928, Page 4

WHAT TAURANGA HAS DONE

(To the Editor)

gj v ._d)no is glad to see that your readers are taking an interest •in the “Old Burying Ground,” which is also an historic spot as the early settlers used it as a “look-out" for alixiously awaited English vessels. In the little Fort cemetery at Tauranga is a shaft of gleaming granito raised to the memory of that grand old chief who went into the enemy’s lines after tho Gate Pah battle giving drinks of water to his enemies. The story sculptured in marble at the base of the shaft needs no words. - This plot was neglected at one time, hut tho people of Tauranga took tho work up and without modernising it mado tho little Fort cemetery tho beauty spot of their town. The wonderful mothers of tho early days of Nelson havo been known to feed tho babies left motherless at their own breasts. Are these pioneer mothers not worthy of a memorial, too? My object in directing public attention to this historic spot is to prevent any portion of land being enclosed by privato people.—l am, etc., J. A. BOND. 9th August.