GALLIPOLI GRAVES.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1920, Page 2

GALLIPOLI GRAVES.

PLANS FOR PRESERVING THEM. Ambitious, plans for tho preservation of the battleground of tho Gallipoli Peninsula are contemplated by the Imperial and Australian authorities. Before his departure from England in November, Lieutenant W. A. M. Blackett, of Melbourne, was offered the post of architect-in-chief of the Gallipoli area. As the appointment was apparent!}' expected to run into a term of years, Mr, Blackett declined. He is an ex-presi-dent of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, and the authorities doubtless felt that the appointment would most fittingly fall upon an Australian. Whoever receives it will probably be in residence at Constantinople, and will become the director of an extensive scheme for the erection of monuments, and the beautification of a spot which is destined to be a place of interest to visitors for all time. Under the Imperial War Graves Commission, over 100 Australian soldiers have for many months been pv gaged in road construction, surveys, and preparatory work for the concentration of graves into defined cemeteries. A' this season of the year, when the ground is frozen, the work is at a standstill, j but it will be resumed when the weather breaks.