CREMATION AT NIGHT
MOVEMENT IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Dec. 11. The Sydney business community, in common with commercial enterprise in every other big city, must, in the course of 12 months, suffer a substantial economic loss consequent upon the attendance at funerals of firms’ employees. for the most part highly-paid exeunt ives.
A funeral —often attended by many business people as a formality—cuts into the best part, of it day. This loss of valuable time will be obviated if the talkod-of night cremations come to pass in Sydney, and if the demand for cremation increases at the present rate. ’There is already talk of establishing additional crematoriums in .the more populous suburbs and also in country emit res in New South Wales. There will, of course, always be a prejudice against cremation in certain religious quarters, but opposition lo it in Sydney, where it is the 1 result simply of conventionality, is being rapidly overcome.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17450, 24 December 1930, Page 7
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154CREMATION AT NIGHT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17450, 24 December 1930, Page 7
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