SCOTCH FIRS
PLANTED IN WELLINGTON SOLDIERS’ CEMETERY. PARTY HEADED BY SIR GUY WILLIAMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Stated by the Mayor of Wellington. Mr T. C. A. Hislop, to be raised from seed from Scotch firs planted by the first Duke of Wellington at Strathfieldsaye House, the seed of which was sent out by the present Duke, firs designed to add to the embellishment of the new extension of the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Karori were planted along the boundary by a distinguished party, each of whom had seen war service. It included General Sir Guy Williams, the Mayor, the Hon. W. Perry; Lieutenant Colonel Cowles, Colonel Hutchen, of the War Graves Division of the Internal Affairs Department, Mr Spence, secretary of the Wellington R.S.A., and the Town Clerk, Mr E. P. Norman. Headed by Sir Guy Williams each member of the party planted a tree, and the party afterwards made a tour of the older soldiers’ cemeteries, noting many distinguished names.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 6
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