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Now, can you tell ma roughly how many interments there

are in Mount Davis Cemetery in the course of a week ?

I have the book here, Sir, if you care to see it,

the register.

That would be perfectly correct, but I only want an approximate number, so as to get at it, in a week -

about the average.

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I think it is ten.

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Is that the most, or the least?

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I should say that would be a fair average.

The chairman:-

In a week?

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Yes, in a week.

Mr Shelton Hooper:-

That would be 520 in a year, about ?

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About that, roughly, - yes.

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Before a corpse is interred, they have got to pet a hig

permit, I think, from the Registrar General ?

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That is so.

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And on that is set out the section in which the corpose

is allowed to be buried ?

A.

Oh. no, they choose their own seation; they choose

their own position.

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22 Q.

Then the permit is only a permit to bury in Mount Davis

cemetery?

Yes, that is so.

Having got that permit, they go out before the funeral

to give orders where the grave is to be dug.

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That is so.

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Now, there are certain fees payable in different

sections, which vary ↑

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That is BO.

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When are those fees paid ?

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They are paid, as far as I know, to the Government by

the undertaker, who charges his clients.

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Before the interment ?

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