RIVAL UNDERTAKERS.
BIDDING FOR FUNERALS. LONDON v Mar*. 3. The rivalry of two firms of undertakers at Amiens caused a series, of 'unpleasant' incidents, says the ' Paris' correspondent of the Times. ~- v '' !g|| One of the firms acts as 'the ao&onsed ' undertaker, the municipality having .last year , granted it'a monopoly. This used 1 < ! to be held bytfce other ? firin. ,which * has I since carried on a § campaign 'against its | I rival by sending! agents to' houses -Where •" i deaths have occurred,-and"posting - at the doors of the Town Hall to meet bereaved persons., coming out After making legal < declarations of deaths.; The ' Mayor has put a stop to the latter prac- * tice. . . - .•!" - . 1 The. rivalry was carried on-with; such, intensity,'- that •-a municipal '-officer'*waa recently fined for assaulting fihe* agent of the dispossessed fiiuij and the wife of a director of the monopolists firm is [to be summoned for boxing the ears of ah , agent of the other. ' ' • i ij 'v» 4'-, '0M-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18657, 13 March 1924, Page 7
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