CREMATORIUM.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 77, 30 March 1920, Page 10

CREMATORIUM.

(To the DdMor.i ' Sir, —In answer to your Correspondent " Vematorium," windly allow rac to « iv that the City Council suspended the r using of the £4,000 loan until the : eeipt of the report of the City ' ngineer, who on his travels would squire into bhe latest systems of cremai on. The president of the Auckland l remation Society, Mr. McOalhim, and myself last week interviewed Jlr. Bush, v. ho stated that he is recommending the . mncil to adopt the Golders Green, London, system of carbon-monoxide, the i - ime as used at Wellington, so we hope fiat a move, will shortly be made by the ! ity Council. The site has yet to be' -ettled upon, which may cause some delay. The Cremation Society is urging t lat the site be as near the centre of Auckland as possible. In Seattle the undertakers run their own crematoria r g-ht in the principal 6treetj with I remises and shops on either tide, and I'iere is no complaint from anyone about proximity to crowded thorough-, t>re*. The Cremation Society Council lis decided to keep the Society going, i.i order to continue propaganda"advoea-l • ng the more extensive u'e of this most i ygenic, sanitary, and cheap form of burial, considerably reducing coets of f.merals.—l am, etc, I R, R. HaXST, Hon. Secretary. I