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TASK OF GRAVES COMMISSION. SPLENDID WORK BEING DONE. During an interview with a “Times” representative yesterday, the Hon. E. H. Farrar, Minister for Labour, Industries, and Immigration in the. New South Wales Government, who is returning home after completing his work as Australian Cobimissioner at the British Empire Exhibition, said that while in Europe he visited the battlefields of France and inspected the cemeteries there. “The War Graves Commission are doing very fine work them,” he said, “and it gave one the impression that those who had made the supreme sacrifice were not being neglected. On every grave there was a small headstone suitably designed, while the grass plots were well kept. “I was more than pleased with the work that was being -done,” he concluded.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11876, 9 July 1924, Page 6
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