CARE OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES
IX AFRICA AND AT HOME. By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Wellington, Wednesday. A meeting of the ■ Executive of the Soldiers' Graves Guild was held this afternoon. The president, Mrs. R. J. Seddon, was in the chair. There was a full attendance of members. A letter was received from South Africa acknowledging the reecipt of £IOO which was remitted in 1003. The letter stated that the money had been credited to the New Zealand Soldiers' Graves Upkeep Fund. The graves of all New Zealanders in South Africa have been marked. It was resolved to send another £IOO, to be devoted to keeping tliem in order, which sum will also be credited to the upkeep fund. The meeting was informed that headstones of Coromandel granite, surrounded by copings of concrete, had been erected at the graves of eighteen or twenty so l ' 1 ' r;s who had died since their return to New Zealand, and whose death was directly traceable to the Boer War.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 175, 3 November 1910, Page 3
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163CARE OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 175, 3 November 1910, Page 3
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