CREMATION SOCIETY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19800, 27 May 1926, Page 7

CREMATION SOCIETY.

A hugely attended meeting of the committee or the Dunedin Cremation Society was held on Tuesday night. The ropoit showed that the City Council had selected a site, and estimated the cost of a crematorium at .£‘2loo. It had set aside £IOOO for the work on condition that the society raised the remaining £2OO, and of this the sum of £lO5 5s had been collected in cash by the committee and paid to the city treasurer in a special account. In addition, a further .£IOO had been promised. It was pointed out that during the Exhibition it was very difficult to make this collection. On the motion of the I!cv. W. Saunders it was resolved to go on with the collections, and endeavour to get the balance required. The Chairman (Mr Gilkison) staled tnc law as to cremation was antiquated, and raised quite unnecessary difficulties. A request in writing by any person desiring to be cremated should be sufficient. The intioduction of this change would make cremations more frequent and consequently much less expensive. Ho had drafted an amendment of the Act, which he hoped would be adopted by Parliament next. year. The committee endorsed tho amendment, and expresced tho hone it would soon be incorporated >n the Act.