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Mākara Cemetery fees

Find out about or pay fees for services at Mākara Cemetery.

Pay cemetery fee

Adult plot plaque lawn Cost
Plot fee $1040
Beam fee $200
Maintenance fee $645
Interment/burial fee $730
Total $2,615
Children's section (maximum length: 107cm, casket) Cost
Plot fee $407
Beam fee $180
Maintenance fee $287
Interment/burial fee (stillborn) $98
Interment/burial fee (0-12 months) $124
Interment/burial fee (10 years and under) $158
Denominational areas Cost
Plot fee $1,365
Beam fee $200
Maintenance fee $956
Interment/burial fee $730
Total $3,251
Natural burial Cost
Plot fee $1,586
Maintenance fee $735
Interment/burial fee $1,113
Total $3,434
Second Interments (all sections) Cost
Second interment $1,250
Other Cost
Arrangement fee $158
Extra width (per 300mm) $215
Extra depth (per 300mm) $284
Services section – casket $678
Services section – ash $182
Indigent interment/burial fee $221
Outside district fee - indigent * $164
Outside district fee - ash plot * $499
Outside district fee - casket plot * $1,240
Temporary grave markers (13 month lease) $168
Muslim boards (adult) $203
Muslim boards (child) $119
Funerals booked after 3.30pm $237.50
Public holiday casket fee (additional) $1050
Public holiday ash interment fee (additional) $526
Cancellation fee $116
Weekend overtime Cost
Casket interment additional fee $730
Ashes interment additional fee $242
Ash beam Cost
Plot fee $310
Beam fee $180
Maintenance fee $180
Interment/burial fee $187
Total $857
Memorial Ash Garden Cost
Plot fee $2450
Ash interment fee $187
Total $2637
Disinterments Cost
Casket disinterment $2142
Ash disinterment $318
Permits Cost
Permit fee for monumental work $102
High-pressure cleaning fee $59
Non-compliance fee for not having a permit for monumental work.
This is additional to standard permit fee.
 $81

* Applies to plots where deceased lived outside Wellington City for 5 or more years (out of district fee).