SALE OF CEMETERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 3

SALE OF CEMETERY.

USE OF FUNDS LIMITED. DEPUTATION- TO MINISTER. Validating legislation to enable the Manurewa Town Board to sell a cemetery at Takanini and use the proceeds for purchasing land as a public utility was sought by a deputation from the board which waited this morning upon the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry. Mr. T. -T. Fleming, solicitor to the board, said the township was adequately terved with cemeteries; the Takanini line was not a suitable site, and the board would pre km - to have proper, if j tower, cemeteries. The board intended I t-> buy lard in the centre of Manurewa j wlivh would be used as a public utility. While the board could sell tiie cemetery land it had uo authority to devote the proceeds to other than cemetery purposes. " I here ought to be nothing in the way of a local l*xlv being able to dispose of its own land."' commented Mr. Parry. "A local body should be able to sell what it does not want and buv something that it wants." The Minister said lie had had a similar instance reported to him bv a deputation in New Plymouth, and* he thought that something could be done in t it" matter. His official reply would be given in due course.