DESPOILING GRAVES.
riu;\"AU-;.NT ix cinii.sTt'iiu.uci.r. C'hristchim 'i. September 0. There are many varieties of the sneak thief, but iiom 1 jii'ohiil'iy ie as worthy of contempt as the person who will stoop to roh a grave of its flora! emblems. Unfortunately there appear to be a number of such dosecrators in Christchunh at (he present, time, and the first bundles of spring flowers, and even the yonne; plants, have apparently been too great a temptation for the shameless vandals. Vases eon taming flowers have been stripped of their contents, and young plants have been removed from the roots and taken awav.
The matter was brought under the notice of a Star reporter by a ledv who has been a reirular visitor to one of the cemeteries for some years past, £h<> slated that, on a ".rave which .-lie tended, bunches of violets had been removed from vases within au hour of the time at which thev had been |,uf, in. A plant at the head of (he ''rave had also been ruthlessly uprooted and taken away, the footprints of the vendals beiuy; plainly discernible at the sid : of the kerb
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 99, 12 September 1912, Page 4
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190DESPOILING GRAVES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 99, 12 September 1912, Page 4
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