THIEVING FROM CEMETERIES
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —A couple of years'-ago I had occasion to write complaining about the despicable thieves who visit the cemeteries and remove plants from graves, probably to take home and plant in their own gardens for their neighbours > to admire. If only the neighbours and friends of tho persons who took —some time last week—a white heath plant from a plot in the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery which my mother and family keep in order, only knew the truth I am sure they would think the same of the thief as I do, and I am sure I would not be. allowed to express that opinion in this letter. Should the hard-hearted thief to whom I refer happen to read this I may inform him or her that if the stolen plant does not grow well we shall be pleased to make a gift of the other plant that remains—unless it has also been removed by now. Usually some one of us visits the plot on a Sunday afternoon, and the thief could then receive the other plant, or, perhaps, corporal punishment, which, 1 think, would be more appropriate.—l am, etc., Rest in Peace. June 15.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 11
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