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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 21

1. All charges must be paid in advance when orders
   are given.
2. All the cost and charges of the burial of any
   person in such cemetery, which must be paid to the
   Managers, will be remitted, less the amount of £1,
   on proof being given to the satisfaction of the
   Managers that such person was a pauper at the time
   of his death, and that there are no funds applicable,
   and no person is liable for the payment of costs and
   charges.
3. Orders for interment must be given to the
   sexton at least six working hours prior to the hour
   fixed for the interment, otherwise an extra charge
   will be made, in terms of Schedule A.
4. The Managers will cause all ordinary graves to
   be dug, but parties requiring brick graves or vaults
   will be required to construct them under the direc-
   tion of a surveyor appointed by the Managers.
   Surveyors' fees to be paid by the applicant.
5. The information required by Schedule B must
   be stated at the time of giving the order.
6. The time fixed for the interment must be the
   time when the procession is to be at the cemetery,
   and the same must be punctually observed.
7. Until otherwise ordered, the usual hours fixed
   for interments will be from 8 o'clock a.m. to 5 o'clock
   p.m. from the 1st day of September to the 30th day
   of April, and from 8 o'clock a.m. to 4 o'clock p.m.
   in the other four months of the year, except on
   Sundays, when the only interments will be from 2 to
   5 o'clock p.m. throughout the year.
8. All monuments, vaults, graves, and gravestones
   must be kept in repair and proper condition by and
   at the expense of the owners.
9. Every coffin in a vault or brick grave must be
   bricked in, cemented, and covered by a slab of stone,
   slate, or iron; and every coffin in a private grave
   must have on the lid a metal plate with the name of
   deceased stamped or painted thereon.
10. A drawing of every stone, tomb, pedestal,
    vault, and brick grave, and plan of every fence,
    monument, or tablet proposed to be erected, and a
    copy of every epitaph or inscription, must be sub-
    mitted to the Managers and approved of by them. No
    stone, tomb, pedestal, fence, monument, tablet, or
    inscription, or other improvement, shall be erected or
    made without the written consent of the Managers.
    If any such stone, tomb, pedestal, fence, monument,
    tablet, inscription, or other improvement be erected
    or made without such consent as aforesaid, the same
    may be removed by the Managers at the cost of the
    parties erecting the same.
11. Any unsightly, dilapidated, or decayed stone,
    tomb, pedestal, fence, monument, tablet, or structure
    may be removed by the Managers, at the expense of
    the owner thereof.
12. No servant or any other person employed by or
    engaged in any duty on behalf of the Managers shall
    receive any gratuity, under penalty of dismissal.
13. The ground will be open daily to the public,
    from sunrise to sunset.
14. A plan of the cemetery, showing the situation
    of the graves, shall be kept by the Secretary, and may
    be inspected on payment of the charge mentioned in
    Schedule A; and registers of all grants shall be kept
    by the Secretary.
15. The sexton shall have power to expel from the
    cemetery any person who shall behave indecorously,
    or commit any trespass or injury to the trees, flowers,
    or erections, or otherwise infringe the Ordinance
    relating to the cemetery, or the regulations for the
    protection of the same; and such person may be pro-
    ceeded against according to the provisions of "The
    Cemeteries Reserves Management Ordinance, 1864."
16. No interment will be allowed to take place in
    the cemetery without a certificate from a Registrar of
    Deaths, or the Coroner holding the inquest or inquiry,
    or a Magistrate, or a duly-qualified medical practi-
    tioner; and such certificate must be delivered to the
    sexton at the cemetery gate.
17. All persons purchasing graves within six
    months from the date of the first interment therein
    shall be entitled to a refund of the usual interment
    fee, £1.
18. On payment in advance of a single fee of £3,
    the Managers undertake to keep the surface of any
    grave in proper order for seven years.
19. The Managers reserve the right to make any
    alterations from time to time in these charges and
    regulations.

SCHEDULE A.
CHARGES.

Public Graves.
Single interment in open ground ... £ s. d.
1 0 0
Single interment in open ground for children under
five years ... ... ... 0 10 0
Single interment in open ground for stillborn children 0 5 0

Private Graves.
Special land for family graves, for each block of 8 feet
by 4 feet, as per plan ... ... 2 2 0
Sinking each grave 6 feet ... ... 1 0 0
" for each additional foot ... ... 0 5 0
" for children under six years ... ... 0 10 0
Reopening each grave ... ... ... 1 0 0

Miscellaneous Charges.
For all interments that take place not in the usual
hours, or of which six hours' notice has not been
given, an extra charge of ... ... 0 10 6
Certificate of right of burial in all graves ... 0 3 6
Charge for copy of register ... ... 0 1 0
Charge for inspecting plan of register ... 0 1 0

SCHEDULE B.
Form of Instructions for Graves.
Answers to be written opposite to the following questions at
the time of giving orders :-

1. What denomination:
2. Name of deceased:
3. Late place of residence of deceased :
4. Rank of deceased:
5. Age of deceased:
6. Where born:
7. Minister to officiate:
8. Day of interment:
9. What hour:
10. Number of grave on plan issued:
11. If a public grave:
12. If special land for private graves, what width:
13. If a family vault or brick grave, what width:
14. What depth:
15. If first or second interment:
16. Nature of disease or supposed cause of death:

(Signature of Representative or Undertaker.)
Order received this day of , at
o'clock.

(Signature of Manager or Managers.)

Signed at Naseby, this 5th day of March, 1881.

WALTER INDER,
G. F. ROWLATT,
GEO. A. WILSON, } Managers.
JAMES BROWN,
L. W. BUSCH,

Proposed Bonus for the Establishment of a Powder
Manufactory.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1881.

THE Government are prepared to receive pro-
posals from any person willing to establish a
factory for the manufacture of blasting and sporting
powder. The proposer to state what amount of
bonus he would require to induce him to undertake
the manufacture.