CREMATION.
VIEWED AS THE MURDERER'S FRIEND, fur TBLi<iftAvk—ritv.ss ABsociATtoH—cortmonT.) - j .(Rec. May 8, 0.40 a.m.) . V Sydney, May- 7.; i A' deputation favouring cremation waited on ' tho State Premier, Mr. • Wade, and pointed out that the cost to the Government of erecting a crematorium would be inftnitosimal compared with the cost of cemeteries. ' Mr. Wade, in the course of a non-committal reply, said ho did not hold, out any hope of }Aio Government erecting a crematorium. One or. the strongest objections;, to cremation ' was that it would iriterfore with. the chance l,of .the crime' of poisoning being brought homo to criminals, and might thus prove, an incentive to; murder.- •' : ' (■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 5
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109CREMATION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 5
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