UNDERTAKERS' PRIZES
MOST BURIALS IN YEAR. CEMETERY’S BID FOR BUSINESS Sydney, June 30. Prizes are being offered to undertakers for the greatest number of burials they arrange at a new cemetery near Adelaide, established by the Unley and Mitcham Municipal Councils. Extracts from a circular letter sent to undertakers by the secretary of the Cemetery Trust are:—-“The trustees feel that the public will eventually realise the definite advantages associated with this type of cemetery, and that the grounds will be extensively used for burial purposes in the near future. However, some of the work incidental to educating the public in connection with the facilities offered at the cemetery will naturally fall on the undertakers. As a mark of recognition for this work, which will occur during the next few months, the trustees have decided to pay premiums of £25, £ls and £lO to the undertakers who arrange the largest number of burials during the 12 months ending April 30, 1939.”
Adelaide undertakers have rejected the idea of competing for money prizes, describing it as a reflection on the “ethics of their profession.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 4666, 18 July 1938, Page 6
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