The information below covers fees and charges related to cemeteries, crematorium and burial/cremation services and requirements in Hamilton city.
See cemeteries for more information including a cemetery search database, maps of cemeteries, crematorium locations and the plot locations within them, opening hours and lists of funeral directors and monumental masons/memorials manufacturers in Hamilton and the Waikato region.
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View a list of fees and charges for all Council services. Fees and charges include GST.
Burial lawns | | $ |
Kowhai plot - garden berm area | | |
Plot purchase | | 215 |
Digging fee | | 100 |
Total | | 315 |
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Kowhai plot - lawn area | | |
Plot purchase - does not include a plaque | | 110 |
Digging fee | | 110 |
Total | | 220 |
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Totara Services Lawn | | |
Maintenance in perpetuity | | 770 |
Digging fee |
| 730 |
Total | | 1500 |
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Adult - oak, olive, chestnut or Forest Grove | | |
Plot purchase | | 3705 |
Digging fee | | 735
|
Total | | 4440 |
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Child - apple blossom (child only - 1 ash urn) | | |
Plot purchase - ashes | | 985 |
Internment fee - ashes | | 120 |
Total | | 1105 |
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Child - oak, olive, chestnut, Forest Grove or apple blossom | | |
Plot purchase | | 1980 |
Digging fee | | 320 |
Total |
| 2300 |
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Second casket burial | | |
Digging fee | | 735
|
Total | | 735 |
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Ash interment | | |
Ash interment |
| 155
|
Total | | 155 |
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Casket disinterment | | |
Digging fee | | 4285 |
Total | | 4285 |
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Ash interment areas | | $ |
Web of memories (four sets) | | |
Plot purchase | | 1045
|
Interment | | 155
|
Total | | 1200 |
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Kiwi Ash Scatter Garden(250mm x 150mm plaque) | | |
Berm plot purchase | | 410
|
Total | | 410 |
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RSA berm (two sets) | | |
Maintenance in perpetuity | | 125
|
Interment | | 155
|
Total | | 280 |
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Garden of Memories Tree (one set, no plaque) | | |
Plot purchase | | 145
|
Interment | | 155
|
Total | | 300 |
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Garden of Remembrance - Bellbird, Kea, Keruru Kokako and Weka (two ash urns per plot) | | |
Plot purchase | | 1010
|
Interment | | 155
|
Total | | 1165 |
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Granite Wall (one ash urn per plot) | | |
Plot purchase | | 800
|
Interment | | 90
|
Total | | 890 |
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Ash spread only | | |
Interment | | 60
|
Total | | 60 |
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Disinterment of ashes | | |
Ash disinterment | | 155
|
Total | | 155 |
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Memorial only** | | $ |
Outdoor book plaque | | 60
|
Book of Remembrance inscription | | 105
|
** supplier fees may increase from time to time, contact cemetery for current price | | |
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Memorial installation permit | | 115 |
Kowhai berm and pedestal permit fee | | 55
|
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Cremations | | |
Adult | | 630
|
Child under 15 years | | 305 |
Stillborn or under one year | | 125 |
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Service facilities | | |
Chapel or lounge - one hour service | | 225
|
Chapel or lounge - 1/2 hour service | | 115
|
Chapel or lounge - 15 minute service | | 60
|
Service DVD/CD | | 56 |
Viewing | | 180
|
Miscellaneous administration costs | | 110 |
Non Funeral Director Service administration cost | | 115
|
Courier fees | | 50 |
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After hours (applicable when staff are required to work outside normal working hours) | | |
Burials (Monday-Friday after 4pm, all day Saturday) | | 325
|
Cremations and ash burials (Monday-Saturday after 4.30pm) | | 305
|
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Public holidays / Sundays | | |
Burials or ash interments on Sundays and public holidays | | 560 |