Photo: SuppliedThere seems no guarantee a memorial entrance will be installed at a cemetery and a settlers’ headstones will be restored before anniversary celebrations in Akaroa. The Comte de Paris Descendants Group and the Akaroa Cemeteries Group hoped work restoring two historically significant headstones would continue ahead of next year’s commemorations. The descendants group also hoped to get the go-ahead to install a memorial entrance at the Catholic cemetery. The list shrunk as council budgets and work plans changed. The group asked for help with the memorial entrance before the 2015 anniversary.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 16, 2020 02:48 UTC