WRONG GRAVES.
WREATHS MISPDACED FOR 16 TEARS. Owtwo to a. biunder which the Beeston ; fKotts) ;Hiban- Council. says the' |ate >sex-f ton; is responsible tor, twoi families: have ;for l&'ycars;or more been offerings mn the wrong
' : '-". * , ~ ':"■■[ Whea..JBjEr..-iB. Gaunt, » prominent tesident, -who! died in December last, Jwas 'buried in the local cemetery; which is under the • control o1 ; lth© urban district council, it; was noticed by, several of the nionrnfirs th»t the been To .avoid .ajgceno nothing, was {said until[:, ia;tho when members of > the family intcroswed the sextctn. : He declared that the Caunfc family must /!»v© b^^^ A. day© later Mr. J. DanieliJ vvsited tho. cemetery; to lay a cross on his eon'a grave, :■■;•>* He discovered that it- had been. disturbed/ and that a stranger's .body had - been *bnried : there. Failing to-obtain satisfaction from the cemetery authoritiesV he approached the committee of the Beeefconr Gooncil, and; hey too, received the reply L that ho must have been attending taiowroug grave. The question was raised at: a meeting of th& council, tod the chri'mianj Mr. J. E. Anderson, stated emphatically tihat ho error had; been made. Ho admitted -that 44 in booking the numbers had been mixed tip," 7 but declared that there hod been ho mistake at the • cemetery. A threat to Writ©- to the Secretary caused the authority 1 to reconsider the matter, and, saddling the blame for th© scandal on a former sexton, th© council, ; at a secret meeting, decided 1 to petition .th© Home Secretary ; for an- exhumation order. Mr. E. "Twigg, the former sexton, say 6 no error has been made so far as he was concerned, but'suggested that at mowing timoa plate may have-been placed against thewrong: grave. '■;.- Mr. J. Daniels says it has been a great:shock to'hie wife. "It has brought; Tiack sad memories .of our. loss Hearly;"Bo years ago;'''; \; : : 'iS;:maritied, daughter of th© late Mr. said: "It;'has. cut ,us all up very much & be fold that for .so many years ;.^;lji&te';^
WRONG GRAVES.
New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15269, 5 April 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)
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