CONCRETE COFFINS
AN UNPROFITABLE INDUSTRY. AUCKLAND, November 10. In i a yard at Fanshaw Street is a neatly-piled stack of concrete coffins (forty in all), the result of much faithful labour on the part of an Auckland man who tried to launch this strange industry. Unfortunately it did not prosper. Concrete ca&kets were viewed askance by prospective' clients, then the industry languished, and now the queer collection is up for sale at the modest price of fifteen shillings each. At first sight the average person might not readily think of a suitable use for caskets, but the man in charge of 'selling them suggests a multiplicity of Uses such as hot’se troughs 1 , lily ponds, or even aquariums for goldfish. It. was also suggested that with judicious planting of flowers on the boi dev a picturesque effect coiifd be created. A sample of the everlasting casket was exhibited at an Auckland cemetery for advertising purposes, but the local authority ordered its removal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 6
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162CONCRETE COFFINS Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 6
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