GRAVES OF SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1920, Page 5

GRAVES OF SOLDIERS.

THE QUESTION OF HEADSTONES. PROPOSALS OUTLINED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wellington, Last Night. One of the details of defence administration which Sir James Allen hopes to complete before he leaves is that relating to the adoption of a uniform headstone for the graves of soldiers in New Zealand and in places near New Zealand, such as Samoa. A meeting of the New Zealand War Graves Committee was held to-day, at which Sir Jas. Allen was present. After the meeting the Minister said the committee had selected a design. The Minister was asked as to the position in regard to headstones for N.Z. soldiers buried abroad. He said that for the present all work in connection with these graves was being done by the Imperial War Graves Commission, and the New Zealand Government had been paying to the Commission a considerable sum for the identification of the graves of New Zealanders in France, Gallipoli, and Palestine.

As to headstones for these graves of New Zcalanders, he did not quite know what the position was. He was not sure yet whether it would he possible for New Zealand to provide a, distinctive stone for the graves of her own men, because lie did not know exactly how far the Imperial Graves Commission had gone in the selection of a design.