SOLDIERS’ GRAVES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4463, 6 September 1922, Page 1

SOLDIERS’ GRAVES.

ERECTION OF HEADSTONES. "There are 1668 ‘war graves' in tihe Dominion,” says the annual report of the Internal Affairs Department. "On approximately 400 of these permanent work' has been completed by the relatives. The Government will have to provide headstones for the balance, plus those graves on which relatives desire the universal headstone ip replace the existing stone. Pending the erection of the universal headstones temporary crosses. (wooden) are beipg erected, and 1050 such crosses ■have’ been placed in position. The universal headstones, wlhich are of the same design as those being erected over the graves of New Zealand soldiery buried abroad, will b.e of Coromandel granite, and the contract for the supply of 1200 stones within three years has been let, ‘‘The first constructional work at tihe Soldiers’ Cemetery, Featherston, where there are 182 'war graves,’ has been completed. The 'headstones for Featherston will be erected before the close of 1922, and headstones will also be placed over the graves ini Palmerston North Cemetery. “In addition to tihe two memorials, the ‘Cross of Sacrifice’ and the ‘Stone of Remembrance,’ to be erected in soldiers’ cemeteries .at Auckland, Featherston, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, special memorials to those members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force buried at sea between Egypt and New Zealand, and between Europe and New Zealand, will be erected at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, bearing the names of the men from the respective provinces. Tine names of other sodiers buried it sea will appear on a memorial at Gallipoli. On the recommendation of the N.Z.E.F. Wap Graves Committee it has been decided to letter ages on the headstones where relatives so desire.”