BRIBES IN HEARSES.
QUICK CHANGE MOTOR CARS.
" I know of cases where a motor hearse has been used to take a body to a cemetery; the bier has then been removed, and the hearse converted into a saloon car to carry a bride to her wedding." . . This statement was made recently in London by the National Organiser of the British Funeral Workers' Association. " There is a large number of these convertible saloon-hearses in use, he added. " One day the vehicle is a hearse. Next day it is a saloon, taking a bride to her wedding, or a party to a <£ social gathering. The whole idMU positively gruesome, and is P from the public < hea ] th the sentimental points of view' to be stopped. Tliere _" ti ® lar l y dw- ; of spreading disease P^' 1 ™ 1 ® ing epidemics, for therei n that the hearse is atJooa A tefora being cotrwrted intJ*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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