THE COURTNEY STREET CEMETERY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 317, 16 January 1908, Page 3

THE COURTNEY STREET CEMETERY

GRAVES TO BE OI'EXEI). REMOVAL OF OLD SOLDIERS' REMAINS. lew people who have seen the youngsters ot the locality playing their games is the vacant sections in Courtenay street cast near Eliot street thought for a moment that the juveniles were romping over the graves of the almost forgotten heroes who fell in the early fighting against the Maoris for hearth and home and loved ones. But to the more particular observer there appeared some blocks that reminded him of tombstones, peering over the heads of the rank vegetation which surrounded them. This was one of the town's earliest buryinggronnds, and but one of the places where TaramkiVi early heroes lay neglected and forgotten. As the result of the attention drawn to this state of affairs, action has been taken by the Rev. Dean McKenna. The following correspondence has now been received at the Borough Council office from the Department of Lands and Survey:— "I beg to enclose for your information a copy of license received this day from the Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs, giving permission to remove certain remains from the above burial ground to the public cemetery at Te Henui. I trust that your Council will give every assistance in expediting this removal. The Very Rev. Dean McKenna has been advised by me to at once place himself in communication with the borough authorities with the object of getting this matter attended Jo without delay." THE AUTHORITY. In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by "The Cemeteries Act, 1882," I, John George Findlay, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorise the removal of the remains of the bodies of Doctor MacAadrew, surgeon a/th Regiment, Sergeant Fihev, Taranaki Militia, and of three other persons, names unknown, but who are believed to have been members of the Imperial or Colonial Military Forces, from the Roman Catholic burial ground (now disused), Courtenay street,, flew Plymouth, to the public cemetery, Te Henui, New Plymouth." ■ A MILITARi FUAERAL. Sergeant Fahey was a' member of the Taranaki Rifles, and was killed at the Battle of Waireka. A military funeral is being arranged.