Cemetery Regulations and Company Registration




must be submitted to the Trustees for approval.

  1. No servant or any other person employed by, or engaged in, any duty on behalf of the Trustees, will be permitted to receive any gratuity, for the discharge thereof.

  2. The Ground will be open daily to the public, from sunrise to sunset.

  3. A plan of the Cemetery, showing the situation of the graves, is kept by the Secretary, and may be inspected at the charge set out in Schedule A; and registers of all grants are kept by the Secretary.

  4. The Sexton has orders to turn out, or take into custody (as the case may require), 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 shall be proceeded against according to the provisions of the "Cemeteries Reserve Management Ordinance, 1864."

  5. No funeral will be allowed to take place in the Cemetery without a certificate from a Deputy Registrar or Coroner holding an inquest or inquiry, or a Magistrate. Such certificate must be delivered to the Sexton at the Cemetery before the funeral enters the gates.

  6. All ordinary meetings of the Managers shall be held quarterly on the first Tuesday of February, May, August, and November, at eight o’clock p.m. Special meetings may at any time be called by the secretary.

  7. The Trustees reserve the right to make any alterations from time to time in these charges and regulations.

ROBERT FINLAY,
S. G. RYAN,
JAMES SAMSON,
WILLIAM BERESFORD,
WILLIAM THEYERS,
JAMES RIVERS,
ALEXANDER JACK,
Managers.

SCHEDULE A.—CHARGES.

Public Graves.
Single interment in open ground ... £1 0 0
Do do of children under 5 years ... 0 10 0
Do do of 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
Do for each additional foot ... 0 5 0
Do for children under 6 years ... 0 10 0
Re-opening each grave or vault ... 1 0 0
Certificate of right of Burial in all private graves ... 0 2 6

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 0
If a public grave, an extra charge of ... 0 10 6
If a private grave, an extra charge of ... 1 1 0
Charge for copy of Register ... 0 1 0
Charge for inspecting Plan or Register ... 0 1 0

SCHEDULE B.—FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF RIGHT OF BURIAL IN THE ALEXANDRA CEMETERY.

On the application of __, and upon the payment of the sum of __, which is hereby acknowledged to have been received, the Trustees of the Alexandra Cemetery, in terms of, and as authorised by the "Cemetery Reserves Management Ordinance, 1864," have agreed to grant, and do hereby grant unto the said __ permission to dig or make a grave or vault on that piece of ground __ feet long by __ feet broad, lying within that portion of the said Cemetery appropriated for burials, and marked No. __ compartment on the plan of the said Cemetery, kept by the said Trustees, with permission to erect or place on the said piece of ground a monument or tombstone on payment of such charges as may from time to time be established. And it is hereby declared that the said __ shall be entitled to have, maintain, and keep up such vault, monument, or tombstone, according to the terms of this permission, to and for the sole and separate use of the said __ and his or her or their heirs and near relations for ever; provided always, and it is hereby declared that this grant is made subject to the terms and conditions following, viz:—First, that the said piece of ground shall be kept and used by the said __, his heirs, near relations, and friends, solely as a burying place, and that no other use shall be made thereof. Second, that no enclosing wall, fence, building, monument or tombstone, shall be erected or placed on said piece of ground until a plan thereof shall have been exhibited to the said Trustees, and their authority given for the erection thereof. Third, that the said grave or vault, and the said wall or fence, building, tombstone, or monument, shall be maintained and kept up by the said __, and his or her heirs, relatives, and friends, in proper repair, to the satisfaction of the Trustees. Fourth, that the said __ and his or her heirs and near relatives and friends shall, in the use of the said piece of ground and access thereto, be subject in every respect to such rules and regulations as the Trustees of the said Cemetery may from time to time make, and shall not be entitled to exercise the right to bury or inter therein, except on payment of such charges as shall from time to time be established by the said Trustees.

Dated this __ day of __ 186__.

[Signature of Managers.]

WILLIAM THEYERS,
JAMES RIVERS,
ALEXANDER JACK

SCHEDULE C.—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 funeral?
  9. What hour?
  10. No. 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).

Orders received this __ day of __ 186, at ____ o’clock.

[Signature of Managers.]

I, THE UNDERSIGNED EMANUEL THOMPSON, hereby make application to register the "Independent Water-race Company, Registered" under the provisions of "The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular, namely—

  1. The name and style of the Company is "The Independent Water-race Company, Registered."
  2. The place of operation is at Switzer’s, on Frenchman’s Hill.
  3. The nominal capital of the Company is £1,250 in 250 Shares of £5 each.
  4. The amount already paid up is £672.
  5. The name of the Manager is Emanuel Thompson.


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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1868, No 527





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  • ROBERT FINLAY
  • S. G. RYAN
  • JAMES SAMSON
  • WILLIAM BERESFORD
  • WILLIAM THEYERS
  • JAMES RIVERS
  • ALEXANDER JACK

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Company Registration, Mining, Water-race, Independent Water-race Company
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