“Unto This Last"

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 69, 15 December 1931, Page 14 (Supplement)

“Unto This Last "

Decency and Decorum “The Funeral Beautiful’) In the past the burial of the dead has been a necessary procedure which has, as a rule been disposed of under the impression that the least said or done the soonest mended. But this may be carried too far. After all the love and reverence for the departed is one of the most beautiful traits of our social being, and there is no reason why such occasions of family and public grief should not be enhanced by those little touches which help so much to soothe the anguish of the hour. Messrs. E. Morris, Jr., Ltd., of Taranaki Street, modern morticians, have recently added considerably to their premises and equipment to bring the same in line with the latest firms in America and England. At considerable expense they have furnished and extended their premises so that those graces may be added to the obsequies which mean an accession of decency, decorum, and even beauty. Their memorial chapel has been fitted with a modern gramo-radio plant for the musical embellishment of the services. It may be “Rock of Ages,” “Abide With Me,” or some glorious “Ave Maria,” but the effect of such music at the right moment is surely consolatory to the senses. Then the firm has not only provided the appurtenances for each form of funeral service, but it has provided an extra suite of rooms at the back of the Memorial Chapel, where in the presence of the body relatives may grieve and pray remote from the world. The modern idea is to remove the body from the home as quickly as possible for several excellent reasons, and in sympathy with that trend Messrs. E. Morris, Jr., Ltd., have not only provided the extra rooms of mourning, but have fitted up a special laboratory, replete with-every convenience, for the use of the medical profession (when their services are required). Messrs. E. Morris, Jr., Ltd., do not only operate in Wellington. Their business interests extend throughout the whole of the province. As they have the finest motor transport fleet of its kind in the Dominion, distance is no deterrent to dispatch in executing any order, near or far.—Advt.