FALLEN HEROES
GRAVES AT FEATHERSTON. The war graves branch of the Internal Affairs Department has commenced the work of putting the graves of exmembers of the, N.Z.E.F. buried at Featherstan in order, in accordance with the scheme approved for perpetuating the memory of the heroic dead. Instead of separate mounds, there will be one large one, around which' a low concrete border will be erected, and spaces will 'be left ait intervals folr the receipt of the headstones which are to be out at as early a date as possible. The mound is to be sown with grass, and will receive careful attention. The total number of graves of ex-soldiers at Featherston is 141.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10962, 26 July 1921, Page 5
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