HIGH COST OF DYING
Loss on a Cemetery The cemetery .Ju the Somerset town of Minehead has hot been paying its way, so the Burial Board almost doubled the burial fees to save tho rates. Now the townspeople refuse to die! Since the new fees came into foicc the mortality rate has been the lowest on record for the district. .. But tho Burial Board wins. Pho fewer burials tho less the work at the cemetery, ami so much money was saved on the cemetery during the recent winter that the board will not need to call on the'rates again during 1930.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 17
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101HIGH COST OF DYING Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 17
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