A STRANGE CEMETERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 26

A STRANGE CEMETERY

Because the graveyard from -which they were taken appears to belong to nobody, efforts to secure a local investigation into the circumstances in which skeletons and coffins came to be dumped at the refuse tip at Lossiemouth. Scotland—the birthplace of Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald —have so far failed. Leading citizens, whose relatives are buried in the old churchyard of Kinneddar. from which the remains were carted among loads ot' rubbish, are determined, however, to solve the mystery, and at their instigation the centre of interest was recently shifted from Lossiemouth to Edinburgh. An Elgin firm of law agents, acting on behaif of certain owners of plots of ground in the churchyard, lodged a demand for an inquiry with the Scottish Office, and an official of the Ministry was deputed to visit the towa.

The attitude which the police and local authorities took up was that as : no question of foul play or vandalism i arose the question was one for settlement between families who feared relatives's graves had been disturbed ; and the custodians of the ground. The Drainie Parish Council, which formerly controlled the ground, ceased : to exist recently, and its successor, the District Council, had not yet met. The Lossiemouth Town Council also ; disclaims the liability, for while the bones and coffins were found on its I property the graveyard itself is outj side the burying boundaries.