CEMETERY REGULATIONS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 202, 25 June 1878, Page 2

CEMETERY REGULATIONS.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail

Sir, —Please allow, me through the medium of your column., to give publicity to the following clause (12) of the Regulations pi ithe' Synod of this diocese, as to Cemeteries belortgiiig to the Church of England :—

" 12/ No monuhlent, gravestones, railing, or erections of any kind shall be placed in any cemetery without the specific consent in writing of the Incumbent, officiating Minister or Bishop if the cure be vacant, or of the clerical nietribers of a Cemetery Board as the case may be; nor shall any inscription on any wall, monument, gravestone, or railing be made without the consent of the Incumbent, officiating Minister or Bishop if the cure be vacant, or of the clerical members of a Cemetery Board as the case may be, reserving to the Arch, deaconthe power of ordering the removal of arty 1 inscription, erection, or obstruction at his next visitation, subject to an appeal to the Bishop, as hereinafter provided." My object in troubling you and your readers' with this letter is to acquaint those of your readers who are members of the Church of England with those regulations, of which many are unwittingly ignorant, but which are nevertheless binding. I would venture to suggest that in future, and in order to avoid even the possibility of any contretemps in the erection of gravestones and the like, it would be well for those about to erect any _nonu-> ment in the Church of England Cemetery to submit a copy of the inscription, &c, to be engraved on it, and a general description of the monument itself, to the Minister in charge of the Parish. Yours, &c, PHILIP C. ANDERSON. St. Peter's Parsonage, Akoara, 20th June, 1878.