CEMETERIES AND CREMATION.
WHAT OF THE FUTURE? Lt is predicted that cemeteries ol the future, owing t<< the growth ol ciematiou, will he known as Gardens ol Remembrance. They will be Gardens containing Columbaria gracefully designed, as a combined memorial and resting-place for the ashes of the dead. The spaco now devoted to a couple of graves will accomodate a hundred or more urns. These, like the funeral urns of the ancient Greek heroes, might depict, m sculptured relief, events in the lives, or symbols of tiro attainments, ol those whose ashes they contained.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 2341, 26 October 1926, Page 7
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94CEMETERIES AND CREMATION. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 2341, 26 October 1926, Page 7
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