Barbadoes Street Cemetery

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31118, 22 July 1966, Page 10

Barbadoes Street Cemetery

Sir, —At last the City Council is moving to improve the appearance of the Barbadoes street cemetery. On a recent visit to my grandparents’ grave, I was amazed at the damage done to headstones and railings by vandals. After the removal of hedges and debris, and when lawns have been laid out and lighting improved, this could be a more pleasant spot I noticed on the Harper headstone the name of Eric Harper, a 1905 All Black who

was killed in action in World War I. Other prominent family names wue Hall. McEvedy, Norton - Taylor, Mullan, Hoban, Fitzgerald, and Barrett. Some old cemeteries in the United States had headstones removed and a monument erected with the names of those interred. — Yours, etc., L.D. July 21, 1966.

Sir, —The excellent Barbadoes street cemetery plan is a fitting tribute to Cr. R. H. Stillwell, who has tried hard to improve the disgusting state of some of our cemeteries by endeavouring to have them p-t on the rates, as the dead are the responsibility of the community to which they belong. The dead are, as Scripture says, asleep in Christ, and so need decent care as well as prayers. It is to be hoped that this plan will lead to the city cemeteries being as well kept as the Waimairi Cemetery, which is a credit to the Waimairi County Council.— Yours, etc., INTERESTED. July 21, 1966.