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Cremation fees

Find out about or pay fees for cremation services at Karori Crematorium.

Pay cremation fees

Adult Cost
Cremation only $865
Arrangement fee $165
Committal service (half hour Chapel service including cremation) $990
Full service (one hour Chapel service including cremation) $1055
Funerals (cremations) booked after 3.15pm $244
Viewing casket charge $103
Public holiday fee $740
Weekend fee (additional fee for service bookings outside standard operating hours) $408
Indigent $132
Child Cost
1 year to 10 years $222
Birth to 1 year $81
Stillborn $76
Public holiday fee $371
Urns Cost
Wooden urn – adult $173
Wooden urn – adult half size $129
Chapel hire Cost
Per half hour $227
Chapel hire for burials $234
Chapel hire for cremation elsewhere (1 hour) $279
Chapel hire weekend (per half hour) $242
Cleaning fee (1 hour) $58
Ashes Cost
Interment/burial of ashes $193
Disinterment of ashes $327
Ash scattering $86
Ash scattering overtime $233
Express ash (weekend collection) $232
Niche placement $192
Certificate of Cremation $60
Book of Remembrance Cost
Two lines - name, date of death, age $108
Per line - up to four lines $54
Per line - up to eight lines $95

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