COFFINS DESECRATED
A WANTON DESTRUCTION
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(Received this day at 11 a.m.) V. . SYDNEY:‘ July 5
A city undertaker’s/ representative, upon calling at the Town Had to offer his firm’s services for the disposal of the unman remains excavated, cabled yesterday, discovered that the coffins and contents lia been thrown on to trucks and dumped in different parts of the city A About forty coffins have been unearthed. c In one case, a drill cut#a coffin in halves.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1929, Page 5
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82COFFINS DESECRATED Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1929, Page 5
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