Castlemaine Cemetery Trust
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People, pets to go together
Castlemaine Cemetery Trust has played a role in helping to change the law regarding burials in Victoria. “We are just the second state that will allow your family pet to be buried in your family plot,” the trust stated last week. Woodend-based Animal Justice Party MP, Georgie Purcell, was successful with her amendment put before…
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Gravestones unearthed
Two rare wooden gravestones and two footstones have been returned to their rightful homes thanks to three local residents. Parks Victoria ranger Lachlan Cullum, who discovered the artefacts in a storage shed in Wattle Gully, contacted Castlemaine Cemetery Trust chair Debra Tranter who went straight out to have a look. “If a family couldn’t afford…