COMBINED CEMETERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 12

COMBINED CEMETERY

CONFERENCE PROPOSED A conference is to be convened in the near future by Mr. A. W. Hall, chairman of the Papatoetoe Town Board, and will be attended by delegates representing some of the south suburban local bodies, to consider the purchase of a bolck of land of 100 acres, situated at the end of Hill Road, Manurewa, and in the Manukau County Council district, as a cemetery reserve. The vendor, Mr. E. S. Pegler, has been in communication with the Otahuhu Borough Council, Papatoetoe, Manurewa, and Papakura Town Boards, and the Manukau County Council, and has stressed the desirability and the urgent necessity of the local bodies joining forces, and making some provision for the future in the way of a community cemetery. The price at which the block was offered was £SO an acre, and this was considered by some of the members of the boards to be excessive.

The Manukau County Council, and the Papatoetoe and Papakura Town Boards, agreed to send delegates to the proposed conference, to consider the advisability of purchasing a cemetery reserve, and would consider this proposal along with any other proposition that was submitted.

The Manurewa Town Board refused to be associated with the question in any way, the opinion of the board being that such a venture on the boundary of their district would act as a deterrent to its progress.

The Otahuhu Borough Council also has a cemetery in its own district, and it was considered that the proposed site was too far away, and the price asked excessive. It is considered * ery unlikely that the three remaining bodies bodies will seriously consider the proposal.