WOODVILLE CEMETERY.
[ To the Editor of the Daily. T__eg_a_h.] Sir,—-I wish, through the medium of your paper, to call the attention of all whom it may concern to the state of the Woodville cemetery. The land where the cemetery is situated is so exceedingly damp as to be entirely unfit for burial purposes. On tbe two occasions at which I read the burial service the water rose so quickly in the grave that the coffin floated, and, had it not been held down with sticks, would have turned over. This haß also been the case at other funerals. Tbe last time I officiated—a very sad occasion—the feelings of the morimers were greatly shocked at the consignment of their dead to what was a filthy mudhole rather than a grave. At present there are but few graves in the cemetery, and the coffins could be easily shifted if a new site was given. If I might suggest one it would be at the Gorge.—l am, &0., Edward Robektshaw, Church of England clergyman of Woodville district.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3168, 24 August 1881, Page 2
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