THE CEMETERY BRIDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12662, 16 September 1904, Page 3

THE CEMETERY BRIDGE.

THE QUESTION OF THE GRAVES. At the meeting of the City Council, held last evening, a letter was read from Mr. A. Kidd, M. H.R.j, stating that in regard to the approaches on the cemetery ground to the proposed vehicular bridge over the Cemetery Gully, Sir Joseph Ward was not disposed to take up the matter as a ] Government measure, pointing out that the proposal practically meant closing the cemetery to all families who held interment rights, and involving the removal for reinterment elsewhere of a large number of bodies. The Mayor (Hon. E. Mitchelson) said a plan had been prepared showing that the number of graves that would be interfered with would be 17, and of those eight would only partially be interfered with. The question was really a very urgent one, and the public demanded art approach to and from Grafton Road. He thought it was worth considering whether it would not be desirable to send the town clerk (Mr. Wilson) to Wellington to endeavour, with the aid of the Auckland members of Parliament, to induce the Government to pass this special measure, so as to enable the Council to do this very necessary work. If it were pointed out to them that the work was really one of very great urgency, then the Bill might be passed. Unfortunately a great many of the graves were of persons unknown, and therefore could not be identified, and the survivors of those who were buried there could not be communicated with. Mr, S. C. Brown asked if the survivors of those who were known could be communicated with. The Mayor replied that they certainly would. The plan would be handed to the city solicitor, and he would communicate with survivors of persons whose graves might be disturbed. There was plenty of spare ground in the cemetery, but even so the remains could be reinterred at Waikumete or Purewa. Mr. Bagnall moved, "That the matter be left in the hands of the Mayor, with power to act, and, if he thought it necessary, to send the town clerk to Wellington to represent the matter to the Government. Dr. Sharman supported. Not only the Council, but, he thought, the public of Auckland also, would be with the Mayor in this matter. The motion was carried.

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