OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 6

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

LATE SAMUEL REVANS (To the Editor.) Sir, —As one who has made several attempts (since the first of the series, in the year 1903) to locate the grave plot, in the Greytown Cemetery, of the late Rev. Samuel Revans —“Father of New Zealand Journalism" —I was naturally greatly interested in the article, under the above caption, appealing in i the District News section of your issue I of Saturday last; but would very much | like to have learned the exact location t of the Revans grave in the cemetery named therein, as even so recently as year- 1929, when my last search was made to find it, I came away as disappointed as in 1903, and even yet doubt if some mistake has not been made between the grave of another Revans and the one thought to be that of the illustrious journalist named, who might easily have found place of peaceful sepulture nearby and no separate monument, to his memory, been eventually raised. If that still surviving pioneer pressman. Mr Mark Maxton, could be induced to settle the matter for all time. by | comparing the reading of epitaph, and dates associated therewith, he would be rendering a signal service to one responsible in the city Press, many years back, for making an appeal to the members of the N.Z. Journalists’ Institute to have such a memorial er-| acted, by them, over the unmarked grave of the. most historic of all their number, and apparently coming under the heading: “The world forgetting, by the world forgot."—l am. etc.. N.J.B. Masterton, June 27.