SOLDIERS GRAVES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 44, 19 February 1903, Page 2

SOLDIERS GRAVES.

Mrs Seddon has .kicdly forwarded to: us a copy of a citcilar, which she is' - sending to all Mayors and Obairmen of (Jounty Councils, suggesting the for-: mation of a Guild ol Wometj to see i that .the gra\es of thsse of our Oon-' 8 tingents, who died in South Africa, a receive proper attention. Mrs Seddon , a says that to know that the graves of 1 New Zealand eoldiers who died for, and at their country's call, are cared for, L " will, she feels sure, be especially plea-. 16 ing to the parents and other bereaved j J® relatives, and also satisfactory to the ( general public. Mrs S?ddon has already, soma moneys in hand subscribed in j 10 London, and further turns have been l " received since, all of which she proposes' 9 ' to band over as soon as a Guild is ' s established in the colony and the neces- ! e sary permanent offio is appointed. The' 18 New Zeishnd Guild is to be a separata' 8 and distinct organisation within its 'lf, 6 and nut intended to be part of either lB the Loyal Guild of Woman i&Sou'h, 16 Africa or the English Victoria League; 01 of Women, but merely to have the 1 IC help and assistance of the former in ,r seeing that the moneys forwarded from " New Zealand are wisely and well ex-1 0 ponded on and in connection with the B ' graveaof New Z aaland soldiers. General ir Badeu-Powell has promised to lend '® every assistance by placing the services IC| of the officers and men under his com--10 mand to help in the laudable work. °> The circular concludesl feel that r " is will be a great consolation to (jhe mothers in New Zealand, whose sons fell and died in.the war, to know that,' ts though far away, their sisters in South 8 Africa will devote attention to those u sacred spots by planting trees, flawtrs, maintaining m&tks, fencing, etc., all of 76 which would have been d jne by these 16 bereaved had their loved ones been hid. at rest in the colony." l