CEMETERY SCANDAL
REMAINS OF COFFINS IN RUB-
BISH HEAPS
(Received January 15, 9.30 a.m.) HOBART. January 15.
Inspector Wadsworth, of the Public Health Department, reporting on the Oueensborough Cemetery scandal, states that he examined rubbish heaps and the remains of fires in different parts of the cemetery, and found the remains of a child's coffin partly consumed by fire ; also two bones.
He found another small coffin in another hean.
The gravedigger had informed hhn that the coffin had been removed by the chairman's instructions four months ago in order to put in another body.
In another heap was disclosed a large number of broken coffins.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 January 1913, Page 5
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106CEMETERY SCANDAL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 January 1913, Page 5
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