UNBURIED FOR DAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 92, 18 April 1913, Page 4

UNBURIED FOR DAYS.

fiODY AT THfe MOHJirtJB, : COROXER MAKES OBJECTION, lying m the mortuary alongside ■ tSi Court' for several-days, in state of deeompoatibn, awaiting buriSl The body was that of a Norwegian sanoT named Halwersen, and-was-found in tte harbour on Tuesday morning An j* quest was held on Wednesday rnornin** and -a -warrant for -burial wasthin- , issued. The reason why the body hid* not been removed should, added Coroner, bo explained by someone. Cases of a similar -kind- have- previ. ously happened in Auckland;, hut ex : planations for the reason-have Bene«jfji : been forthcoming. On : of -unknown persons.have been the morgue as long ius : possibleVjiih!;hope of identification being establisVi* J Trouble has also sometimes ensued ovm the question of who ehoiildpay expenses, and there is one case on tecei* 1 ' where the .body of a child was.aHow^ ; to remain five days in the morgue &.* cause the relative*refused tojbecome responsible for funeral charges, tile Charitable Aid Board in this case having even " tually to undertake the burial reapohsi^'

In the present case the .Charitable !Ait? authorities say. that notiflcitiba did ns<l reach them until 5 o'clock imstrteKt of I' the issue of a- warrant Jor burial. The 31 body, after a lapse'df six 1 AaW ■m L i s« ? terred to-day. ' -~ - ~ ™ j