WAR GRAVES
FRANCE AMD BELGIUM.. Press Association—Electric Telegraph— Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, Saturday. Tlie High Commissioner, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, has visited the- cemeteries in France and Belgium. Already eight hundred cemeteries have been placed under the ebntrol of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Sir Thomas Mackenzie states that such cemeteries a v s are' i-ouipleted are now beautifully well kept and planted with flowers. Notwithstanding the magnitude of the work and the difficulties involved. favourable progress has been made, but some cemeteries where permanent work has not been commenced are in more or less disorder, mainly due to the fact that they came under shell-fire after they had been laid out.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14100, 19 April 1920, Page 5
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