STRANGE CEMETERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

STRANGE CEMETERY.

INQUIRY INTO MYSTERY. Because tho graveyard from which they were taken appears to belong to nobody efforts to secure a local investigation into tho circumstances in which skeletons and coflins caino to bo dumped at the refuse tip at Lossiemouth, Scotland —I ho birthplace of Mr. Bams.iy Mac Donald—have so far failed. ~ _ Leading citizens, whoso relatives are buried in the old churchyard oil Kinneddar, from which the remains were carted among loads of rubbish, are determined, however, to solve tho mystery, and at their instigation the centre of interest was recently shifted from Lossiomouth to Edinburgh. An Elgin firm of law agents, acting on behalf of certain owners of plots of ground in tho churchyard, lodged a demand for an inquiry the Scottish Office, and an official of the Ministry was deputed to visit tho town. Tho attitude which the polico and local authorities took up was that as tio question of foul play or vandalism arose the question was oije for settlement between families who feared relatives' graves had been disturbed and tho custodians of the ground. The Drainie Parish Council, which formerly controlled the ground, ceased to e;;ist recently, and its luccessoi-j tho District Council, had not yet met. Tho Lossiemouth Town Council also disclaim the liability, for while the bones and coffins were found on its property the graveyard itself is outside tho burying boundaries.