ARAPOHUE CEMETERY.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 161, 2 September 1892, Page 2

ARAPOHUE CEMETERY .

A. meeting of the Arapohue Cemetery Trustees was held in the School-room on Saturday last, all the Trustees with one exception being present. The chief object of the meeting was to consider what should be done towards rendering the' cemetery —well I must not say more attractive, but loss repulsive. Until now, the trustees conn] not do as they wished from want of funds, but have now got a little money in hand, and are anxious to make the best use of it. After much discussion it was determined that the ground—which has recently been ploughed —should be allowed to lie fallow during the summer months, that it may be mellowed and pulverized by the action of the atmosphere, then harrowed, crossploughed, harrowed again, and then laid down in grasses suited for such a place. This cannot be done until next autumn, after which walks will bo laid out and the cemetery planted with suitable trees and shrubs. Resolutions were also passed thanking the young men viz. Samuel Dreadon, Jas. and Washington Bradley, Robt. ar.d Jno. Masefield, and Win. and Frank Bradley, Jrmr. for theii: very generous kindness in gratuitously clearing' off the rubbish and ploughing the cemetery ; also to the young ladies and gen 11 emeu wtio so liberally gave half the proceeds of their lafe dramatic entertainment; also to Mr Berridge who has kindly promised to make an entrance gate, charging only for the material. A discussion then, ensued as to charges for interment, when it was decided that the following rates he charged viz. ten shillings each for adults, and five shillings for children ; and for family burying places, teii shillings for first grave, and live shillings for each subsequent one. It is hoped that the censors of Arapohue will now give the Trustees a spoil and that your correspondent of Arapohue will rest assured that so long as the present Trustees are in office, the funds committed to their keeping will neither be misappropriated nor extravagantly used ; a suspicion of which would seem according to a late effusion of his in the Beal, to have been agitating his “ gentle buzziin.”