Digging up dead Chinamen.
Auckland, Saturday. — The exhuming of the bodies of dead Chinamen from their graves in the Waikumete cemetery, began at daybreak this morning.
The disinterment is under the direction of Mcc Chang, a contractor who has carried out the work at other place 3in the Colony and is working under instructions from a Chinese firm.
The last disinterment movement occurred twenty years ago when about 200 bodies were taken; the present undertaking involves the removal of about 450 bodies from 30 or 40~cemeteries of the Colony. There are 190 coffins stacked ready at Greymouth, 200 near Dunedin and smaller numbers in some other places. The steamer Yentura has been specially chartered for conveying the bodies to Hong Kong.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4355, 29 September 1902, Page 2
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