LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
OUR CEMETERIES. Sir, —I very heartily agree with Councillor W. Slcegg's protest at tho Karori Borough Council's meeting the other night against the burial of a murderer's remains at the Karori Cemetery. Nor should, in my opinion, a similar thing be allowed again in any of our public cometerics. it is well known that in England the remains of suiferei'B of the extreme penalty of the law are buried within the precincts of tho prisons, and that lime is enclosed in tho coffins. If New Zealand prisons aro not to have "graveyards" attached, why should it not he legally enacted that all murderers' remains shall be cremated? In tho case of tlie unfortunate one tho otk&r day we might have then been able to send the ounce or so left of him to any of his relatives or friends in Germany. At any rate it appears to me that cremation in all such cases is desirable, in justice to public sentiment.— I am, etc.,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 7
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168LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 7
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