CEMETERIES & CREMATION
WHAT OF THE FUTURE? It is predicted that cemeteries of the future, owing to the growth of cremation, will be known as Gardens of Remembrance. 'They will be gardens containing Columbaria gracefully designed, as a comlbined miemorial and resting place for the ashes of the deall The space now devoetd to a couple of graves will accommodate a hundred or more/ urns. These, like the funeral urns of the ancient Greek heroes, might depict, in sculptured relief, events in the lives, or'symbols of the attainments, of those whose ashes they contained.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1926, 26 October 1926, Page 6
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93CEMETERIES & CREMATION Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1926, 26 October 1926, Page 6
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