SEXTON FINED £3
Interfered With Remains CEMETERY AT DUNEDIN By Telegrapti.—Press Association. Dunedin, April 28. At the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Kennedy imposed a penalty of £3 on John Kellyer Allan, tiie sexton of the Northern Cemetery, who pleaded guilty to interfering witli human remains. The Crown Prosecutor stated that before 1909 a portion of the cemetery was used for pauper burials, but b.v mistake or ignorance the City Council in 1912 rosurveyed the area and sold tiie ground to new purchasers, 'rhe sexton was digging a grave for a pending funeral when he came across two ancient coffins, which were removed to a clay bank.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 12
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106SEXTON FINED £3 Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 12
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