BEAUTIFYING CEMETERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 800, 22 October 1929, Page 10

BEAUTIFYING CEMETERY

ACTIVITIES AT ONEHUNGA As the result of negotiations between the Onehunga Borough Council and the Vestry of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, concerning the demolition of an unsightly stone wall and replacing it by a floral rockery, the Rev. H. M. Smyth and Mr. E. Wrigley, representing St. Peter’s Cemetery Board, have undertaken to have the work carried out. In a recent interview with the council the representatives of the cemetery board reported that the cemetery grounds abutting on Queen Street had been regraded, the most neglected fences removed, and the ground sown in grass. They * further offered to allow the corner of Queen and Church Streets to be rounded off to a radius of 15ft., providing the council erected the wall on the new boundary line. The council was also advised that the vestry contemplated the erection of an addition to the eastern portion of the church, which would cost several thousand pounds, and it was also intended to beautify the general surroundings of its property. At a meeting last evening the council adopted a recommendation of the council-in-committee to offer the stone required to build the rockery on the Queen Street frontage and to set back the wall at the corner of Church Street.