WELL CARED FOR

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 4

WELL CARED FOR

GRAVES OF FALLEN SOLDIERS FINE WORK BY COMMISSION REPORT ON ACTIVITIES Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, neuter’s Telegram. LONDON, March 11. The progress, of odring for and beautifying war ’ cemeteries florally and architecturally in Europe, Asia, and Africa is depicted in A photographic supplement with the annual report of the War Graves Commission, whoso labours are statistically illustrated as follow) Cared for. 2380 cemeteries, comprising 545,498 graves; conducted seven nurseries; supplied nearly seven million pi ante, trees,, and , shrubs ; purchased 360,000 bulbs; planted 49 mile* of hedges and 41 acres of grass; chemically treated 97,000 .headstones. Hie report discloses that isolated British remains continue to be found; the number last year being 4100, mostly discovered by organised gangs digging x the ground and searching for shells and war ’material.

The Prince of Wales sent a message to the commissioners expressing gratification that the Governments of Britain, Canada, and Australia had agreed -to endow the commission, and observing with satisfaction that other Empire Governments were considering a similar course;