Cemetery Fees & Charges
The following fees and charges are applicable from 1 July 2020 and include GST unless otherwise stated
Burials
| Service |
Day |
Fee |
|
Adult interments including natural burials and RSA area
|
Weekday
|
$784.00
|
|
|
Saturday morning
|
$912.00
|
|
Children (under 15 years)
|
|
$0
|
|
Stillborn
|
|
$0
|
|
Disinterment
|
|
$1,046.00
|
After hours and additional burial charges apply to:
|
Service
|
Day
|
Fee
|
|
Burials at rural cemeteries - will incur travel costs
|
Current cost - Subject to change |
$1.00 per km |
|
Extra depth graves over 1.8m, as may be required for a double depth plot, incur an additional cost
|
|
$123.00
|
|
Funerals extending after 5.00pm weekdays or 1.00pm Saturday
NB Usually requires 3 staff.
|
|
$44.00 per hour per staff member
|
|
Burial services held after 1.00pm Saturday
|
|
$444.00
|
Cremations
| Service |
Day |
Fee |
|
Adult – includes plastic urn
|
Weekday
|
$682.00
|
|
|
Saturday morning
|
$800.00
|
|
Children (under 15 years)
|
|
$0
|
|
Stillborn
|
|
$0
|
|
Cremation of indigent person
|
|
$124.00
|
|
Burial of ashes
|
|
$261.00
|
|
Medical Referee’s Form
|
Current actual cost -
Subject to change
|
At cost
|
After hours and additional burial charges apply to:
| Service |
Fee |
|
Funerals extending after 5.00pm weekdays or 1.00pm Saturday
|
$44.00 per hour per staff member
|
|
Cremations held after 1.00pm Saturday
|
$127.00
|
Plot Purchase
| Service |
Fee |
Perpetual Maintenance |
|
Burial plot - adult
|
$1,051.00
|
$261.00
|
|
Burial plot - stillborn with monument/children
|
$525.00
|
$128.00
|
|
Rose spaces, niches and cremation plots
|
$525.00
|
$128.00
|
|
Servicemen burial plot fee
|
$0
|
|
|
Servicemen cremation plot fee
|
$0
|
|
Other additional costs
| Service |
Fee |
|
Permit fee for erecting monuments or headstones (includes RSA permits)
|
$72.00
|
|
Permit for Rose Gardens (headstones)
|
$72.00
|
|
Book of Remembrance entry
|
$115.00
|
|
Niche Wall/Memorial Wall
|
$308.00
|
|
Genealogical research per hour (after the first hour)
|
$72.00
|
|
Use of Chapel for services
|
$72.00
|
Notes
- These prices do not include funeral directors’ costs.
- As rates fund 25% cost of the cemetery, Council imposes a 25% surcharge on plot purchases for people who have not been resident in Whanganui at the time of death.