ABSTRACT
The packing of the urn is entrusted to the undertaker, who arranges its contents in the natural order with the skull on top. His fee, which includes the provision of the receptacle, is from $15 to $20 with a tip in the form of "tea money" and a share of the refreshments. Before the Colony suffered from overpopulation people selected the final resting place of their deceased relatives for their own convenience, as well as that of the departed, but sites are now allotted by Government. The coffin shop arranges transportation, the cost varying with the distance, and the bones are accompanied to their final resting place by a small deputation of the family, which performs the usual ritual with candles and incense, and offers sacrifices after the installation. The urns are called Chin T'a (~~), or "Golden pagodas", and serve the same purpose as the more imposing structures, save that they house the relics of sinners as well as saints.
