O'NEILL'S POINT CEMETERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18689, 21 April 1924, Page 5

O'NEILL'S POINT CEMETERY.

Sir, —I visited to-day a forlorn and neglected spot, O'Neill's Point Cemetery. The sky was bine and the sea sparkled in the near distance, and at my feet lay the graves of many dear dead in a wild tangle of bracken and blackberry bramble. It is almost pathless, overgrown with weeds, sad and ugly. We are concerned about the graves of our soldiers in France and on Gallipoli; ws like to think of them cared for and seemly. But here, under our very eyes, those who have fought and suffered lie pitifully neglected. Is there no one responsible, no caretaker whose doty it is to see that the whole place does net disappear before long under a cruel undergrowth of weeds and thorns . The grave I go to visit has no path near it. To approach it, and many others, I must straggle knee-deep through an almost impassable , tangle of blackberry bramble. Long trails of this noxious weed reach round and across the, graves, the bracken grows and dies higher than the headstones. With shears and knife I fight it back. Next time it is over again. This cemetery is a disgrace to any community. God's acre of bramble and jam jars! Mother.