THE GALLIPOLI CEMETERIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20905, 20 December 1929, Page 20

THE GALLIPOLI CEMETERIES

THE NEW ZEALAND MEMORIAL,

Sir Janies Allen has received a letter from Sir JJabian Ware, vice-chairman of fu® Imperial Win- Graves Commission, written at Constantinople on October IJ, trom which the following is an extract;—’ 1 have just spent two days with Hughes on the Peninsula, and thought that you would like to hear from- me at first hand, how things arc going there. I had not been there tor four years, and was-V-ery pleased )vith the development of the cemcteries; in yours as in all others (except in the one or two right down by the seaside exposed to salt spray) the trees- are growing well—cypress, pine, and tamarisk and the effect of large spherical clumps of rosemary i s excellent. ’ The horticultural work done by Kelt in this respect is really very remarkable, and though we cannot grow the flowers we ■ii i lU *i • ll(:o a ? d Belgium, they quite Uolcl their own m comparison with the Z™ toncs t r le }' c ' aud have a dignity and v eac^ ful Permanent appearance winch was very moving, to my mind I & n > „ k! T V , f^ 0U eai ‘d that poor Ketfc died a short time ago in Egypt, having be ?P knocked down uy a motor car Hughess work is still beyond all praise and he retains to the full his keenness and his sense of the greatness of ins task and its value to the Empire. I am very happy about it, and I know it will give yon Pleasure to hcAr about it M w d&« tou « T c V ywhere has retained its whiteness—l had expected it to weather much darker —and the view of the cemcenes from Channk Puir amj other overwh’pl 18 VCry " lUch as !t ' vas > absolutely o\ ci whelming in its impressiveness though the growth of the trees is addin ’ a green framework to the cemeteries’ scape 1 UlakcS them ]ivi "S in the land’

You may remember that I never liked {j}® f P r i Ul . of . headstone we had adopted to? r n’ i bllt t , Blnce t,le horticulture hns PdcvlZf a " " ly oi>jeetions ha « disapf^ e \ v Zealand memorial at Channk Bair stands strong and solid,.and will do so for 1000 years or so T ‘ - uo terested to see that the’ Italian-boats Tf expect some of the others do so'too) in threlTliJasts C jm ,¥°! losmonuraent > blow iiiree uiasts, dip their flag, and ask fin a notice put up the day before) evenbody to observe three minutes? silent h.P nf" :orlt general,y « going very well out, of course, one haa e,ij on, the. treas2ry- ee Lt a i C f°r Itve I think I shall Du 1 endowment fund established. 6 fiv ° m ’ lllon