GRAVES OF SOLDIERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1730, 15 September 1917, Page 4

GRAVES OF SOLDIERS.

GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY. The Department of Internal Affairs is giving attention to the question of earing for the graves of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force dying in the present war. It has been decided that the Defence Department should be responsible for all graves beyond New Zealand, and that (ho Department of Internal Affairs should undertake the care of graves in the Dominion —that is to say, the graves of those who die while in hospital or in camp, or on their return to Now Zealand after active service abroad, and while they are still members of the Expeditionary Force. A standard typo of grave is being decided on, simplicity and artistic design to be the main features. The Government architect has submitted designs, and several sample gravestones are being made for inspection before any particular design is adopted. The work will be commenced at Wellington, Feathers!on ami Auckland, where most of the soldiers who have died in New Zealand arc buried. The next-ot-kin will be informed in each case of what the Government is doing. With one exception, those eontrollilng cemeteries have expressed willingness to supply burial plots free of cost, and to permit the Government to erect suitable headstones or memorials. ..