FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ASSOCIATION FORMED Funeral divertors of the Wellington, Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay provinces decided at a conference in Wellington lo form a Funeral Directors’ Association, which will he incorporated, I lie nbjrel ivo being to better Die conditions inidoi which they are. working. Gliief among Die problems discussed were Sunday funerals, and the shortening of ihe excessive hours of employment. It was fell that the introduction of the 40-liour week placed n> heavy load oil Die shoulders of principals,' and it was decided that Sunday funerals could easily he dispensed with. However, provision could lie made, for infections, cases where public health or religious belief made such a. funeral necessary.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 11
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111FUNERAL DIRECTORS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 11
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