"When I was in Wellington recently Dr. Ritchie, of the Health Department told me that every third person in Wellington was cremated," stated Mr. C. E. Cross at a meeting of the Waimairi County Council during a discussion on the Waimairi Cemetery Board's application for a grant. "Then you were lucky to get away." suggested Mr. H. Kitson. "I mean, of course, every third dead person," Mr. Cross explained, when he could make himself heard above the laughter,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 4
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