SOLDIERS’ GRAVES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6450, 22 February 1908, Page 14

SOLDIERS’ GRAVES

(To the Editor “N.Z. Times.”) Sir,--la a “Topic” in yesterday's ''Times” it is stated, on tho authority of a public man, apropos of South Africa, that tho Imperial authorities look after ail soldiers' graves “as a matter of routine.” iß.thafc so? lam speaking of a period several years ago, but there seemed to bo no “routine” save tho red tap© kind of routine which means neglect, concerning the graves of many Imperial soldiers who fell in the Waikato War of 1863-4. Some of your older readers, at any rate, may remember tho deplorable condition into which the cemeteries at Eangirini, Faierangi, and other places had been permitted to sink. Something may hare bean, done in the meantime—l do not know—but if so it has been most Likely at the expense of the colonial authorities. If the Imperial authorities look after the soldiers' graves iu South Africa, how comes it that they have neglected the graves in this country? And if they have ocr not, or do aiot now, neglect them, where is the need for spending the «CCOO, now standing to tho credit of tho Soldiers' Graves Fund iu Wellington, upon them?—l am, etc, MEREMERE. WeitingtoxL, Fob. 21.