CORRESPONDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 October 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE FEILDING CEMETERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE FEILDING STAR. Sir, —ln your issue of Wednesday, the 18th inst., I noticed a local commenting on the neglected state of some of the graves in the Feilding Cemetery, and " again drawing the attention of the Cemetery Committee to this matter." While quite agreeing with your general remarks on the subject, I do not think you can be aware of the mode in which the Cemetery is controlled; and would like to inform you and your readers that there is no such body as the Cemetery Committee. Trustees have been appointed, in whom the land is vested, and they have improved the grounds as far as their funds would allow them, and are about accepting a louder for further improvements which are necessary to comply with the Cemetery Management Act. I am sure if the trustees had funds sufficient they would not require any urging to fence and lay out the grounds as they should be. I think you ought to draw the attention of the public to the fact of the Cemetery being public property. Those persons who have friends interred there whose graves are in an unkept slate, should contribute towards their proper maintenance. Trusting you will do so, being better able than I am, and that you will find space for the above,— l am &c. W. G. Haybittle, Treasurer Feilding Cemetery Trustees. Feilding. Oct. 18th, 1882.