SOLDIERS’ GRAVES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 347, 30 April 1935, Page 6

SOLDIERS’ GRAVES

GOVERNMENT TO PAY FOR NECESSARY ATTENTION

Press Association —Copyright Auckland, April 29

In accordance with the policy of the Government, the graves of New Zealand 'soldiers whose deaths are held by the War Pensions Board to be attributable to war service are put in order and provided with headstones from time to time as required. In this connection the Minister of Internal Affairs. Sir Alexander Young, stated to-day that he has authorised expenditure on work requiring to be done to war graves in the following cemeteries:— ■ WaipUkurau Soldiers' Cemetery, £2 10s; O’Neill’s Point Cemetery, £l3 12s; Taruheru Soldiers’ Cemetery, £l9, Sydenham Cemetery, £8 17s 8d; Rotorua Soldiers’ Cemetery, £10; Nelson Cemetery, £9; Eastern ‘ Necropolis Soldiers’ Cemetery, £66; Waikuraete Soldiers’ Cemetery, £42 18s; Eastern Soldiers’ Cemetery, £5 ss; Hillsborough Cemetery, £7 3s; Hastings Cemetery, £9 7s; Kelvin Grove Public Cemetery, £7 10s; Waikumete Public Cemetery, £3 6s 6d; total. £204 9s 2d. •