A Neglected Cemetery

Te Puke Times, 9 June 1933, Page 2

A Neglected Cemetery

(To the Editor) Sir,—May I be allowed through the medium of your paper to bring to the notice of the residents of Te Puke and district the sadly neglected condition of our cemetery. On behalf of all those to whom "God’s Acre” has become doubly sacred as being the last resting place of their beloved dead, I appeal to those in charge of the cemetery to remedy a state of affairs, for which, I must submit, there can be no excuse. The Cemetery Board has funds in hand, there is ample relief labour available and a supply of fine pumice is close at hand, so why dirty weed infested paths, paspalum and other grasses almost two feet high flourishing everywhere, and ragwort plants by the hundreds slowly taking possession of the section ? The cemetery belongs to us all and we must all accept some responsibility tor its present condition! and I am quite sure that if the public conscience was aroused, and a strong desire expressed that in future our holy burying ground be kept In a satisfactory condition, this reproach -to our district would speedily removed.—l am etc., A. L. WitREFORD. Methodist Parsonage.