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 | | 100 |
| Total | | 210 |
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| Totara Services Lawn | | |
| Maintenance in perpetuity | | 760 |
| Digging fee | | 690 |
| Total | | 1450 |
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| Adult - oak, olive, chestnut or Forest Grove | | |
| Plot purchase | | 3655 |
| Digging fee | | 690 |
| Total | | 4345 |
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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 | | 690 |
| Total | | 690 |
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| Ash interment | | |
| Ash interment |
| 120 |
| Total | | 120 |
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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 | | 1030 |
| Interment | | 120 |
| Total | | 1150 |
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| Sunken garden one (180mm x 150mm plaque only, no ashes) | | |
| Berm purchase | | 250 |
| Total | | 250 |
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| Sunken garden two (250mm x 150mm plaque only, no ashes) | | |
| Berm purchase | | 290 |
| Total | | 290 |
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| Sunken garden three (250mm x 150mm plaque only, no ashes) | | |
| Berm purchase | | 290 |
| Total | | 290 |
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| RSA berm (two sets) | | |
| Maintenance in perpetuity | | 120 |
| Interment | | 120 |
| Total | | 240 |
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| Garden of Memories Tree (one set, no plaque) | | |
| Plot purchase | | 140 |
| Interment | | 120 |
| Total | | 260 |
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| Garden of Remembrance - Tui, Bellbird, Kea and Fantail gardens (two ash urns per plot) | | |
| Plot purchase | | 995 |
| Interment | | 120 |
| Total | | 1115 |
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| Granite Wall (one ash urn per plot) | | |
| Plot purchase | | 785 |
| Interment | | 82 |
| Total | | 867 |
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| Ash spread only | | |
| Interment | | 52 |
| Total | | 52 |
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| Disinterment of ashes | | |
| Ash disinterment | | 120 |
| Total | | 120 |
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Memorial only** | | $ |
| Outdoor book plaque | | 57 |
| Book of Remembrance inscription | | 86 |
| ** supplier fees may increase from time to time, contact cemetery for current price | | |
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| Memorial installation permit | | 110 |
| Kowhai bern and pedestal permit fee | | 51 |
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| Cremations | | |
| Adult | | 620 |
| Child under 15 years | | 305 |
| Stillborn or under one year | | 125 |
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| Service facilities | | |
| Chapel or lounge - one hour service | | 190 |
| Chapel or lounge - 1/2 hour service | | 97 |
| Chapel or lounge - 15 minute service | | 47 |
| Service DVD/CD | | 56 |
| Viewing | | 165 |
| Miscellaneous administration costs | | 110 |
| Courier fees | | 36 |
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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) | | 260 |
| Cremations and ash burials (Monday-Saturday after 4.30pm) | | 260 |
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| Public holidays / Sundays | | |
| Burials or ash interments on Sundays and public holidays | | 510 |