THE OLD MISSION CEMETERY AT TAURANUA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9368, 27 November 1893, Page 5

THE OLD MISSION CEMETERY AT TAURANUA.

[B? TELEGRAPH.—OWN' correspondent.] Tauranoa, Saturday. INSPECTOR EMERSON is at present here on his periodical tour of the police stations, and to-day Colonel Hume arrived on a tour of inspection of the prisons, and to inspect the state of the old mission cemetery. At low tide Colonel Hume accompanied by Inspector Emerson went to the cemetery and inspected the seawall, which is giving way at tho foundations. Colonel Hume decided that it is necessary to at once have the wail put in order and strengthened, and the work not being extensive he expects to get it done at once. In addition he proposes to dispense with all the old wooden headpieces, and have a monument erected, and the names of all the soldiers and sailors buried in the enclosure engraved upon it. The whole of the works are badly wanted, and as money has been voted by the Government for the purpose, Colonel Hume anticipates no delay in getting the old cemetery put in a creditable state. He looks on the work as one of colonial importance, and that ib should be done by the Government, and not left to a small community like Tauranga. It is nine years since Colonel Hume's last visit here. He left again for Auckland by the Clansman.