Our Cemetery.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2006, 17 December 1886, Page 2

Our Cemetery.

To the Editor "/the Sl.nulurd.

Sib, -May I suggest that the growing so luxuriously be out or eaten down by aheap before the dry weether sets in an the long grass is iu danger of being eet on fire. Last year the cemetery bad a narrow escape from being disfigured and destroyed by a grass fire. It would have been very painful to friends to witness snob destruction, but tbe danger will be as great as before nnlaaa something is done to remove the grass. I know that when sheeep>re let in the giaaa is soon cropped close, but unfortunately tbe little flower beds upon unprotected graves are eaten off. This is tbe difficulty. It may be that poor circumstances prevent some persons from fencing the graves of their friends, but it wbnld be better to risk tbe destruo tion of a few flowers and shrubs over a grave than see the whole place blackened and scorched by a grass fire. The grass should be cropped to prevent such a disaster. 1 am, Ac., Ghost.