The sorry state of Pioneer Cemetery is to come under the spotlight at a Masterton District Council task group meeting next week.
Parks and Open Spaces chairman Gary Caffell said task group members were well aware of the need for work to be done at the cemetery and he personally has sympathy for families with loved ones buried there who feel the condition of the graves and surroundings is not up to scratch.
Last week the son of a former Queen Elizabeth Park caretaker, who now lives out of the district, wrote to the Times-Age expressing his disappointment with the current state of the Pioneer Cemetery.
Dex Knowles said he feared there was a larger problem looming because of trees growing in grave plots.
In one instance he had found a " large specimen" growing out of the chest area of an ancestor.
