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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 March 1922, Page 5

The recent increase in the cost of burial was detailed at the last meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board by the member representing the North bbore boroughs. Afc a meeting of the Kehef Committee a widow said she had | paid sixpence per week for some time betoro her tmsoand -died to msure his life, so that at his death she might gee ±£0. This sum she had obtained, but i4O or it haa gone in funeral expenses, / i jne s Pen* in hnJ™& a plot or land at Purewa cemetery. A few years ago their contractor's price for funerals was £4. The chairman said that their contractor's price for funerals of people who had no relations was just £2, although the contractor fcad recently asked for an increase, as rarr| as ed fees had been laid upon him. *la^ of £40 would have been a high charge for a widow in poor circumstances to pay for the burial of her Husband, was the opinion expressed by members, but as the money had beeii paid it ?vas now too late to do mj<~ fhwg m the matter. i