SOLDIER'S GRAYES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 52

SOLDIER'S GRAVES.

THE PRESERVATION FUND. WELLINGTON, January 8. In connection with the sum of £700 raised in New Zealand, and now held here &•» a soldiers' grave fund, it has been decitled by the committee to use the moneys taken from it for the upkeep of soldiers' graves in. the Dominion, and to refuse to hand, it over to the Loyal Women's Guild of South Africa as requested. Already some firms have been asked to furnish designs for a diis<tin,guishing mark which it Ivais bean agreed shall be placed over every soldier's giave discovered in New Zealand. It is found, | iiowever, that it is very difficult to obftain information regarding the location pi graves, and though the officers comBranding districts have been approached ippxi asked to obtain a return, if possible, of soldiers' graves in their districts, it has been so far without effect. It ie thouglhit that mayors of boroughs, heads of iocal bodies, old settlers, old soldiers, and the public generally having any knowledge Di tlbe locality of solidierj.' graves might assist by (sending definite information regardhxg the •whereabouts of those unmarked. it -will much simplify t*he work of the rd if any parson interested will &&nd the information in bi6 power in this OOtknection to Mr Rockstrow, eecretarv of -the Soldiers* Gnwe Ouiid, VTeJlington*.