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Stevenson Sleeps in Weed-Grown Plot OLD FRIEND’S PROTEST A protest against the present condition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave in Samoa is made by Dr. G. H. Cowles, of Liverpool, who is visiting Auckland. Br. Cowles, who was a passenger on the Tofua, which arrived from the Islands yesterday, intends to place the facts before the people of Scotland when he returns. “I knew Stevenson before lie went to Samoa, in the days when his health was beginning to break,” the doctor told The Sun man. “It was therefore with feelings much deeper than those of the ordinary sightseer that I essayed the climb to the spot on the liill where the grave is situated. I must sav that I was disappointed. "I found the climb arduous and the grave was in a neglected state. Weeds are growing in It. I hate to see rfliy grave in that condition and when I return I intend to place the position before the Scottish people, through the Stevenson Club, Edinburgh, and persuade them to do something, not only to the grave, hut to the approach. “There should be a graded road, not the bridle track that exists to-day.” Er. Cowles was last in Hew Zealand three years ago. He has travelled extensively and has made now no fewer than five visits to New Zealand. I know almost every inch of the country,” he said.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290219.2.143

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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 592, 19 February 1929, Page 14

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NEGLECTED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 592, 19 February 1929, Page 14

NEGLECTED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 592, 19 February 1929, Page 14

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