LADY ASQUITH
A DIFFERENCE WITH VILLAGERS. Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Fob. 23. Lady Oxford and A*si|uitli finds herself the centre of ail unusual controversy over her decision to remove her Husband’s body a short distance in order to make room to erect a memorial. The villagers declare that the carrying out of this plan will involve the distil riling of at least one . family grave. “I simply won’t carry out a reburial as at present arranged,” declared the Sexton to-day. ‘‘Mow can I ask the man whose parents arc buried beneath the spot she wants to dig up the hones of his own father.” The Vicar has written to Lady Oxford and Asquith, and the latter tonight made statement as follows: “Lord Oxford and Asquith’s grave will he moved by permission of the Home Secretary (Sir Win. Joynson Hicks) and the church authorities. The removal will interfere with no one.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1929, Page 7
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