Purchasing Plots
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With the exception of the areas set aside for our Returned Service men and women, burial plots at Hamilton Park Cemetery can be purchased in advance. This can assist in ensuring other family members can rest alongside their loved ones as well as making future burial arrangements a little easier for families.
With the exception of the Kowhai and Apple Blossom Lawns, which are both designed for the young, plots at Hamilton Park Cemetery are now dug to allow for two casket burials in the same plot.
All used plots are held in perpetuity in the name of the owner of the burial rights. As per the Bylaws, Council retains the right to close unused plots after 60 years, without the need to consult family.
A one-off lawn maintenance fee is included in the purchase price.
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Oak Lawn
The Oak Lawn, bordered with gardens and oak trees, allows more choice as to the design of headstone, most of which are upright memorials.
Except for those plots already used for single depth casket burials, each plot allows for two casket burials and up to four ash interments.
For plot management information and memorial specifications see brochure:
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Birch Lawn
The Birch Lawn allows for a more restrained memorialisation area with its low rise desktop memorials and is named for the border of birch trees. A softer contour to the cemetery layout and gardens is provided with the beams and nearby gardens curved in a gentle shape of an S.
Except for those plots already used for single depth casket burials, each plot allows for two casket burials and up to four ash interments.
For plot management information and memorial specifications see brochure:
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Chestnut Lawn
The Chestnut Lawn offers an alternative to the traditional upright and low rise memorials by providing continuous sloping concrete beams on which plaques or tablet memorials are placed.
Each plot allows for two casket burials and up to four ash interments.
For plot management information and memorial specifications see brochure:
For plot management information and memorial specifications see brochure:
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Totara Services Lawn (Returned Services Area)
The Totara Services Lawn is an area set aside exclusively for the burial of Returned Service persons, with their spouses or partners as a second interment.
The burial plot is provided at no charge in a joint agreement with the Cemetery and Veteran's Affairs. However, families are responsible for the maintenance and burial costs.
Only an approved Veteran's Affairs plaque can be installed in this area. The plaque is purchased through the local Returned Services Association (RSA), your funeral director, or directly with Veteran's Affairs.
For plot management information and memorial specifications see brochure:
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Apple Blossom Lawn
The Apple Blossom Lawn is set aside for the interment of children and provides an area planted in crab apple trees and with seating that creates an environment for families to sit and reflect. Concrete berms allow for both low rise desktop and upright memorials.
For plot management information and memorial specifications see brochure:
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Kowhai Lawn
The Kowhai Lawn provides a secluded area for parents to inter stillborn babies. This circular lawn, located on the right of the main cemetery grounds, is planted with Kowhai trees and has perennial garden borders.
The plots do not allow for headstones to be placed directly on the lawn at the head of the plot. Instead plots are identified by a standard metal tag installed at the foot of the grave by cemetery staff.
In place of the headstone as a memorial, families can arrange through a monumental manufacturer for a porcelain plaque to be installed on the pedestals next to the lawn's central memorial feature.
For plot management information and memorial specifications see brochure:
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Lawn Cemeteries (Maple, Beech, Magnolia and Cherry Lawns)
These older lawns at Hamilton Park Cemetery are now closed for sale of new plots. Existing reserved plots, second casket interments and ash interments are the only choices available for use in these areas.
These lawn areas, named to reflect the trees planted within their borders, are designed to provide a park like environment with flower containers placed into the ground so that the tops are level or just below that of the turf.
For plot management information and memorial specifications see brochure:
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Contact
After hours phone Council
24/7 - 07 838 6699
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Hamilton Park Cemetery
395 Morrinsville Road (SH26)
Newstead
Private Bag 3010
Hamilton 3240
Phone: 856 7987
Fax: 856 0023
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