"ALMOST A SCANDAL."

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 101, 29 April 1910, Page 4

"ALMOST A SCANDAL."

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(By Telegraph.—Own Corrwipp-dciD

———I_C_——, -——-day. . The TOiika.to Hospital Board _x_,y opened fenders for pauper funeralg, and it was found -that -there were three tenderers. One firm offered to do tha funerals at V- per -adult, and fid. per child; another firm tendered to _> the -work .for nothing; while a third firm .;. • ' offered to do the funerals at 5/- each, and .give -he Board a banns of .£2*s/-, thus giving a bonus of £2 on each _inemL The chairman said this __tter —as almost a ac-ndal, but as the _r_t which had tendered to give a bonus was ' a respectable one, they -could sot hat accept it, and this _o__e was followed. At the first Hush ___ _ne_hi—. of-__-.; ; dering would seem to indicate either that undertakers develop anore than the usual .supply of "the -tniHr o' human kind- ■>. _ess," _t hhat they axe so ___e_s, in '-_". "haig_mr- the •___ it and debit sides of _; : ' ____• ledgers, that, like-——.—: -Vain '"£"' with his farm, "they -act rise from affluence to poverty"- __t __s-j^p_-. ; ent ■topsy-turvy "way of doing business does not nece_«rily /<—try with it any such -B-clu-ip-B. "'——ere is a ___od in ■■&. B——b ———Iness, for ul a ——iving n_j.'jnjsperous town like Haanilton, at all events, the ___b_r «f pauper funeraki is not a great —natter, _i«e_ leaa _?__fc- R ter indeed to the tuidert_k_r than as the work in connection with the funerals of those whose friends —nt afford-to pay. *i| Ax_ _ne undertaker who _a_-_._-t the former is usually supposed to be'recom—mended for the h—ter.' "W_iei-3* _ne "tsl explanation -,o| -ithe «}if^Tnl3y. unac-' countable and. ' "way in -,'if -which __ _hd__—-JST trade te___t_/to _-wpi_- 3o_x_s.Jar. -mnynig __t ; ___• j .p_r.ii_—_—— "'i i " i. ' ..' . ''