COFFINS DUMPED ABOUT
OLD SYDNEY SETTLERS GET SCANT CEREMONY CITY HALL EXCAVATIONS Reed. 9 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. A city undertaker’s representative, upon calling at the Town Hall to offer liis firm’s services for the disposal of the human remains excavated at the City Hall, discovered that the coffins and their contents had been thrown on to trucks and dumped in different parts of the city. About 40 coffins had been unearthed. In one case, a drill had cut a coffin in halves. Further exhumations of the remains of former Sydney citizens are being made by workmen at tile City Hail, said a Sydney message yesterday. Some of the bodies have, lain undisturbed for 123 years.
There are no headstones over the graves, and the vaults are now being cleared out.
Some coffins lying in wet clay were in a remarkable state of preservation. The graves indicate that the winding track of a century ago that has now become George Street has gradually encroached upon this burial ground.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 707, 5 July 1929, Page 10
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