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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 $1,071
Beam fee $206
Maintenance fee $664
Interment/burial fee $752
Total $2,693
Children's section (maximum length: 107cm, casket) Cost
Plot fee $419
Beam fee $185
Maintenance fee $296
Interment/burial fee (stillborn) $101
Interment/burial fee (0-12 months) $128
Interment/burial fee (10 years and under) $163
Denominational areas Cost
Plot fee $1,406
Beam fee $206
Maintenance fee $985
Interment/burial fee $752
Total $3,349
Natural burial Cost
Plot fee $1,633
Maintenance fee $757
Interment/burial fee $1,146
Total $3,536
Second Interments (all sections) Cost
Second interment $1,287
Other Cost
Arrangement fee $165
Extra width (per 300mm) $221
Extra depth (per 300mm) $292
Services section – casket $698
Services section – ash $187
Indigent interment/burial fee $228
Outside district fee - indigent * $169
Outside district fee - ash plot * $514
Outside district fee - casket plot * $1,277
Temporary grave markers (13 month lease) $173
Muslim boards (adult) $209
Muslim boards (child) $113
Funerals booked after 3.15pm $245
Public holiday casket fee (additional) $1085
Public holiday ash interment fee (additional) $542
Cancellation fee $119
Weekend overtime Cost
Casket interment additional fee $752
Ashes interment additional fee $249
Ash beam Cost
Plot fee $319
Beam fee $185
Maintenance fee $185
Interment/burial fee $193
Total $882
Memorial Ash Garden Cost
Plot fee $2523
Ash interment fee $193
Total $2716
Disinterments Cost
Casket disinterment $2206
Ash disinterment $327
Permits Cost
Permit fee for monumental work $105
High-pressure cleaning fee $61
Non-compliance fee for not having a permit for monumental work.
This is additional to standard permit fee.
 $83

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