Notice Title

Closure of the Methodist Burial Ground-Corner of George Bolt Memorial Drive and Ihumatao Road, Mangere, Auckland

I, Graeme Richard Gillespie, Group Manager, Communicable Disease and Environmental Health Policy, Ministry of Health, acting under delegation from the Minister of Health, make the following directions under the Burial and Cremation Act 1964 ("the Act"):
1. Under section 41 (1) of the Act, the denomination burial ground known as the Mangere Methodist Burial Ground situated on the corner of George Bolt Memorial Drive and Ihumatao Road, Mangere, being the land described in the Schedule to this notice ("the burial ground"),
shall be closed, subject to the exception and qualification set out in paragraph 2 below, and burials there shall be discontinued from and including 1 August 2005.
2. This closure notice is subject to the following exception and qualification:
? The land identified in the Schedule is excluded from sections 42 and 44 (4) of the Burial and Cremation Act 1964, and accordingly, the land may be sold and diverted to any other purpose provided the site is cleared of any remains, tablets and monuments.
North Auckland Land District-Manukau District
Schedule
Area m2 Description
6984 More or less, being Lot 1, DP 162130(all Computer Freehold Register NA97D/261).
Dated at Wellington this 14th day of January 2005.
GRAEME GILLESPIE, Group Manager, Communicable Disease and Environmental Health Policy.