SUNDAY FUNERALS.
CLER(*jf AND UNDERTAKERS CO-OPKRATE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Duncdin, Last Night. At a meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery to-day, a, deputation representing the undertakers in the city and suburbs attended to discuss the question of funerals on Sundays. The Rev. J. K. Mclntyre, who introduced the deputation, proposed tliat an agreement should he entered into that ministers refuse to conduct &unday funerals except in cases represented by-a doctor to ue of urgent necessity, in such cases the funerals to take place at an ear'y hour. The undertakers present expressed themselves as strongly opposed to funerals, on Sundays, and the opinion was expressed that the clergy as a whoie were .of a similar opinion. Eventually it was decided that the question be referred back to a committee with a recommendation that jt enter into communication with the ministers in the city and suburbs individually, and endeavor to unite them in a strong resolution against Sunday funerals.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 266, 8 April 1914, Page 5
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156SUNDAY FUNERALS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 266, 8 April 1914, Page 5
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