CREMATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18748, 29 December 1922, Page 3

CREMATION

PROGRESS IN AUSTRALIA. (From Oijb Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, December 20. Australia has .only one crematorium. Adelaide haa the distinction of being its home. Formerly there was one in Melbourne, but lack of patronage led to its abandonment. The movement has been revived in New South Wales, and permission for the erection of a crematorium has been achieved. For this purpose a company has been formed, and will spend £12,000 in building an up-to-date crematorium at .the Necropolis, near Sydney. The plan, allows for the erection of a chapel and furnace, and later the columbarium (repository for the ashes). It is pointed out that cremation will bo effected at a cost of £5, whereas not less than £25 is charged for earth burials. Moreover, from a sanitary point of view, cremation was the only certain method of completely destroying fatal germs of disease. The Cremation Society points to the fact that there are 53 crematoria in Germany, 73 in America, and 14 in England, as we'll as those long since established in France. Switzerland, and other countries. The achievement of the establishment of a crematorium has been signalised by the society’s President, Dr Creed (a member of the Legislative Assembly), publicly offering his body, after death, to the society for cremation.