WAR GRAVES.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1920, Page 3

WAR GRAVES.

NEW ZEALAND COMMITTEE

WELLINGTON, April 14

A meeting of the New Zealand War. Graves Committee was held to-day. This committee, consisting of the Min- , ister and several military officers and; geologists, lias to report as to the suit- I ability of available New Zealand stones j and make suggestions as to designs. | Tbe committee received the reports; as j to tho suitability of stones, and select- | ed also a design, The committee then, decided to have made a full-size model of the selectd design in three, stones, j given as first, second, and third, in order of preference by the geologists, j The committee will decide, after view-, ing the specimens, which stone shall bo , selected. The committee deals only i with graves in New Zealand and in , Samoa. For the present it has noth- j ing to do with the graves of New Zea-, land soldiers buried in France or Gallipoli or Palestine. These aro at pres-j ent under the Imperial War Graves | Commission, and it is not yet known by the New Zealand Government whether there is to be a headstone of uniform design for all soldiers of thp Empire or whether New Zealand will be permitted to erect.a distinctive stone for her soldiers. It is not oven known what steps the Imperial War Graves Commission has taken towards the selection of a design. The Commission lias been doing a great deal of work m demarking cemeteries and identifying graves, and New Zealand is paying foi such' of this work as is being done oil behalf of New Zealand.