BURIED IN WRONG GROUND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 1

BURIED IN WRONG GROUND

BODY TO BE EXHUMED AFTER 16 YEARS

MISTAKE AT TAUMARUNUI (From Our Own Correspondent) TAUMARUNUI, Today. That the Rev. J. J. fendray of Manunui, had been buried m 1913 m the wrong cemetery plot was disclosed in a letter received by the Taumarunui Borough Council from Mr. J. S. Pendray, on behalt of the re Application had been made for two plots in the Methodist portion, and the burial took place. Recently, when the remains of Mrs. Pendray arrived at Taumarunui for burial, it was discovered that her late husband had been interred by mistake m the Catholic part oi the ground Mrs. Pendray was placed in the new cemetery? and the body of her husband will be exhumed and placed beside he Mr Pendray asked the council to bear the cost of the removal, on the ground that the council was responsible for the mistake. The Mayor, Mr C A. Boles, however, pointed out that in 1913 the cemetery was administered by a Cemetery Board quite distinct from the councH, which could not be held responsible for the mistake.