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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 $840
Arrangement fee $158
Committal service (half hour Chapel service including cremation) $961
Full service (one hour Chapel service including cremation) $1024
Funerals (cremations) booked after 3.30pm $237
Viewing casket charge $100
Public holiday fee $719
Weekend fee (additional fee for service bookings outside standard operating hours) $396
Indigent $128
Child Cost
1 year to 10 years $216
Birth to 1 year $79
Stillborn $74
Urns Cost
Wooden urn – adult $165
Wooden urn – adult half size $125
Chapel hire Cost
Per half hour $220
Chapel hire for burials $227
Chapel hire for cremation elsewhere (1 hour) $271
Chapel hire weekend (per half hour) $235
Cleaning fee (1 hour) $56
Ashes Cost
Interment/burial of ashes $187
Disinterment of ashes $318
Ash scattering $84
Ash scattering overtime $225
Express ash (weekend collection) $226
Niche placement $187
Certificate of Cremation $58
Book of Remembrance Cost
Two lines - name, date of death, age $105
Per line - up to four lines $53
Per line - up to eight lines $92

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