16 Oct 2023

Digitisation project finds sole mystery grave in Otago cemetery

From Nights, 10:25 pm on 16 October 2023

For over 100 years the Ranfurly cemetery in Central has had impeccable record keeping.

Details for each of the 700 plots and nearly 1600 people interned there, have been confirmed during a recent digitisation process - except one for which no records can be found.

Central Otago council parks and recreation manager Gordon Bailey joins Nights to talk about what's being done to find who is buried there.

Central Otago District Council cadet Jocelyn Ryan laying flowers on the only unknown grave at Ranfurly Cemetery,

Central Otago District Council cadet Jocelyn Ryan laying flowers on the only unknown grave at Ranfurly Cemetery, Photo: CODC