THE CEMETERY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3803, 22 September 1883, Page 3

THE CEMETERY.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir.—The obituary notices in your last night's issue contained the names of two young persons who died respectively at Meanee and at Taradale. They are both to be buried on Sunday, and they are both to bo interred in the Napier cemetery. It is a common practice to bury people in town who have died in tho country, and it is a question I think worth considering whether the strain so put on the limited space of our cemetery cannot in some way be reduced, or better still removed altogether. A visit to the cemetery in this comparatively young town will convince anyone who gives the subject consideration that the time is not far distant when, with regard to sanitation, this burial ground will have to be closed. The graves are now most sorrowfully closo tqgpther, and the memorial stones thickly stud the enclosure. It might be urged, and not unreasonably, that the establishment of a cemetery in tho country for the burial of persons dying in town would be a sanitary reform that could not be undertaken any too soon. It must come to this sooner or later, for the existing cemetery can never accommodate the deceased of the next ten years without seriously affecting tho health of the living.—l am, &c , Gγ. Napier, September 22, 18S3.