CORRESPONDENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1924, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

IT IE ( KMK'I KU't .To tlie Editor). Sir. -T'iiis morning ..New Year’s Day) I visited the Cemetery with some friends and was grieved to see • ,aneglected state of tim grounds, p"'tieularly the t.laekbeny -test and doe,:-:. The latter was red with seed and if nor burned at mice will seatin' -c,-l: in ilm four winds of heaven. Friend-:- lit ing in tlie country districts, others scattered all over Xcw Zealand when they irlurn to Hokitika a- we lone done tlii.voar to visit the Exhibition, wonder

how often tin- Cemetery Committee visit their ground- to inspect tin- work which should he done. Some friends had their parents graves covered with concrete and thi.: morning alter a lapse of years in the North l-land found the blackberry from vacant plots had covered them up. Citizens of Hokitika visit the Cemetery on Sunday afternoon anil see for yourselves. Had you been absent in the North Island for a number of years, returned ..and found the docks and blackberry growing in profusion, just ask yourself the ipir--tion--"Would you have liked ii." f am etc., A HOKITIKA PDA'. Hokitika. Januarv Ist. 1921.