FORGOTTEN AND NEGLECTED
THE GRAVE OF THOMAS • BRACKEN. "Not understood, we move alons asuudcr, Our paths grow wider os tho 6«i6one creep ; Along tho yearo; we marvel and wo wonder Why Life is Lifo? And then wo M\ asleep, Not Understood. j "Where," asked the Dunedin "Star" the other day, "is Tom Bracken buried? Is he forgotten? A few.days ago, relates the "Star," a visitor asked to see the placo of interment, and after much debating as to whether it was in 'tho Southern or in the Northern Cemetery, and some turning up of yellowing documents, the grave was found in tho. Northern Cemetery in Dunedin. No stone marks tho spot. Tho mound has fallen in. The surface is overrun with weeds. The facts ar6. humiliating Neod wo say more? . ■■
Tlie above paragraph was reprinted hi The Dominion oh Monday morning, and yesterday, Mr. Jas. B. Speed and Mr. F. W. Manfon called at The Dominion Office, with a suggestion that a fund should be raised in order that the neglect of the past mi<;ht be repaired, and the last resting-place of ths New Zealand poet marked with fitting distinction. It was a disgrace, they said, that not even a. stono marked the' spot where the man who wvjite "Not Understood".lies buried.
:. ifljha'.y: followed jup, tjisir,,.._sii|;gest!on,; which we willingly endorse, with a donation of lQs. each. Further subscriptions 'to the fund may bo paid at this office, and in tile' meantime steps will be , taken by those interested to form a committee to take control of the movement. : j
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 7
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259FORGOTTEN AND NEGLECTED Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 7
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