CEMETERY SCANDAL.
(Pram Awn.- By Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Received January 15, 9.30 a.m.) HOBAR-T, January 15. Inspector Wadsworth, of the Public. Health Department, reporting on the Queensborough Cemetry, stated that he had examined the rubbish heaps and remains of fires in different parts, and he found the remains of &- child's coffin partially consumed by fire ; also two bones wetrie found in* lanofyijar small coffin in another heap. The grave digger informed him that the coffins were removed by the chairman's instructions four months ago in order to put another body in. . Another heap disclosed a large number of broken coffins.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12956, 15 January 1913, Page 3
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