HUMAN REMAINS
In Front of Old Karori Borough Chambers Remains of three human bodies were discovered buried in front of the old Borough Council Chanibers at Karori on Thursday by men sinking a drainage trench. The identity of the bodies is not known. It was known, when the work was undertaken, that the location was that of an old cemetery, although no data existed as to its exact site, or the number of persons buried there. Records are meagre, but about 1844 Mr. James Hair handed over the piece of land on which the borough council chambers now stand for community purposes. Upon the site a community church was built, and burials were made iu its grounds. On the building of St. Mary’s Anglican Church, however, its churchyard became the district burial ground, replacing the earlier ground. All that is known conceruiug those interred in the old graveyard are that some of them bore the surnames of Collins, Brodie and Kent, but older residents are stated to have believed that a number of graves must lie under the building now used as a post office. The remains have been reinterred in Karori Cemetery.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 9
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193HUMAN REMAINS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 9
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