WEEDS AT PUREWA CEMETERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 17

WEEDS AT PUREWA CEMETERY

Sir, —The writer would ask space to question "Constant Visitor's" opinion that weeds are allowed to grow ami seed absolutely unchecked, and that the resting-place is appallingly neglected. This seems to be a gross exaggeration and a reflection on the stall' who are employed at the cemetery. This burial place would compare favourably with any the writer has visited in New Zealand and Australia. About Christmas the place was in splendid order, but just at the present moment the continual weed-cutting and clearing-up is a trifle overdue, hut the recent gale uprooted largo trees and overturned monuments wholesale. These two works of safety and restoration were given precedence over the usual weeding, cutting and clearing, which "Constant Visitor" will he p;l«cl to know is now proceeding as usual and no doubt the shoulder-high grass on the paths will have disappeared next time "Constant Visitor" reaches Purewa. The fact that such a condition existed is news to the writer, who has visited the cemetery on alternate days for the past two years. Personally, he thinks the staff of five is adequate under ordinary circumstances, and that neither they nor Aucklanders generally have any reason to endorse "Constant Visitor's" whole-hearted condemnation the burial place. Harold Nicholson.