BURIAL OF OLD AGE PENSIONERS
Hamilton Investigation
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Hamilton, August 11
Following a complaint made by four Rotorua clergymen to the Waikato Hospital Board regarding alleged unfeeling and haste in the conduct of burials of old age pensioners and the burial of one pensioner in ' a coffin which bore no name-plate or other means of identification, a special Rotorua visiting committee reported to-day on the question. It appeared that an interview with a local undertaker showed that it was a misunderstanding that no name-plates were provided. The matter would be rectified in future.
Commenting on the publicity given the matter in the Press, Mr. F. Findlay remarked that he had received a cutting from an Australian paper in which considerable prominence was given to the letter of complaint from the Rotorua clergymen.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 271, 12 August 1938, Page 13
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