CREMATORIUM PROPOSAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 207, 2 September 1938, Page 6

CREMATORIUM PROPOSAL.

| Tvet me thank Mr. Oniniven for liis iassurance that he personally is not opposed to cremation. That is very satisfactory. But he thinks a crematorium should not he erected in a conspicuous place, because '"even the very mention of cremation sounds wei-vl to a lot of people, worries them and upsets their nerve-. ' Mr. <tu<!iivcu*s p-vchological is impressive, but I must say 1 have never noticed people worrying over the idea that other people prefer cremation to burial. However, if Mr. (iuiniven is keenly sensitive to other people's feelings, may I inform him that the sight of O'Neill's Point Cemetery worries me every day and ask him what he proposes to do about it': To talk <»i "beautiful Takapuna"' while the cemetery is allowed to remain in its present condition i- ridiculous. But Mr. Guiniven has himself >uy opinion that what he i- "inn-! conccrmsV with is the fact that the crematorium pmp.tsal has been put forward l>y l)ev.>iip.«i i. It is a proposal intended to benefit the North ?>li«>re as a whole, but it is to he blocked. <>n mi--t trivia] grounds, by a section ot a council elected bv a section of the North Shore, (luce again we see howNorth Shore's pro-jre>s i- impeded by superfluous local council.-. TA K A PUN A RATEPAYER.