N.Z. SOLDIERS' GRAVES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 15

N.Z. SOLDIERS' GRAVES.

PRIVATE INSCRIPTIONS NOT ALLOWED. [THE PBESS Special Service.] ■WELLINGTON, October 28. New Zealand is tho only country in the Kmpirc which forbids the placing of private inscriptions on war graves, and a promise to have enquiries made as to why this is so was given in the House of'Representativcs to-day by the Minister for Defence (tho Hon. Mr llollcston). The subject was raised by the presentation of a report from tho Defence Committee, which recommended to the Government for favourable consideration the petition of Mr N. B. Fryday, of Ngacre, who had asked for the right! to have a verse from Holy Writ, inscribed on the stone above the grave of his son, who is buried in a soldier's cemetery. Mr AV. J. Jordan Olanukau) con»» mended the request to the Gwernraenfc and said that agreement to the prayer of the petition would bring about great ioy to Mr Fryday. New Zealand was the only country which did. not alio* private inscriptiins to be placed on the headstones over soldiers' graves, and tho position could arise that in the case of two brothers who had served in the forces of different Dominions the grave nf one could liear the family tribute, while the other would cany fcLmnlv tJia affioJnJ inacnntinxx-