Cemeteries
There is a range of services and facilities for burials and memorials in the Far North. Public cemeteries are managed either by the Far North District Council or by a community committee. There are also graveyards adjacent to churches, iwi urupa and private burial grounds within the district. Customers should contact the church or iwi direct if the graveyard is not listed on this website.
- Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
- Saturday 8am-1pm
There are no burials on Sunday, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Good Friday (Easter).
All graves are dug by the Council. Contact us on 0800 920 029 if you want to be present when the grave is being dug or if you want to backfill the grave.
We manage a number of Services Cemeteries on behalf of Veterans' Affairs New Zealand. Service personnel are eligible to a grave/ash berm if they meet criteria set by Veterans' Affairs. A spouse may also be buried with the service person.
Contact Veterans Affairs for more information.
Ash interments are arranged by applying to Council for a burial warrant and interment. Ashes can be interred in an ash berm or a burial plot.
A Disinterment Licence must be obtained. Please contact Northland District Health Board (09 430 4100).
A permit is necessary for the installation of a headstone. One headstone is permitted on each plot. Memorial plaques can be attached to the headstone for ash burial in that grave. Maintenance of the headstone is the responsibility of the family representative.
- Application for erecting a monument
- Headstone dimension drawing
There is one crematorium in the Far North at Kerikeri Public Cemetery on Wiroa Road. Contact Scotts Funeral Services for more information: (09) 407 6367.
For any applications for burials, please complete either one of the following two forms:
- Plot reservations by an applicant will only be permitted upon the burial of a family member (partner, child, sibling, grandparents) of the applicant.
- Only one application per burial is allowed.
- An applicant may reserve up to two additional plots next to the burial plot of the deceased, subject to availability.
- However, the “Certificate of Title” issued for each plot must be registered to a single individual. Where a second plot is reserved the “Certificate of Title” must be registered to a different individual.
- Paihia
- Russell
- Kerikeri
- Totara North
- Kawakawa
- Ōkaihau
- Kaikohe
- Kaitāia
- Kaeo
- Kohukohu
- Rāwene
Far North District Council does not administer these cemeteries. For burial requests, please contact the cemeteries directly.
Broadwood | Jenny Walter: (09) 409 5567 or 0211895793 |
Fairburn | Clarence Foster: (09) 408 4149 |
Herekino | Minty Grondin: (09) 409 3899 |
Houhora | Robert Bradley: (09) 409 8501 or 09 409 8131 |
Māngonui | Mike Pooley : (09) 406 0170 or 0210236850 |
Māngungu | Joe Carr: (09) 401 9197 |
Onekura / Pungaere | Robin Thorp: 021 407 826 |
Orira (Umawera) | John Wooster: 09 401 8807 |
Oruaiti | Eric Foster : (09) 406 0302 |
Peria | John Garton: (09) 408 5829 |
Tōwai | Colleen Going: (09) 402 8997 Mobile: 027 281 8528 |
Takahue | Mabel Ricket and Julie: (09) 408 4059 |
Waiharara | Eva Radojkovich: (09) 406 8594 |
Waipapakauri | Wayne Bratton: (09) 406 7266 |
Waiotemarama | Tom Drewet 09 4054886 0274762377 email drewet@xtra.co.nz Beverly Mitchell 09-4058303 0273542630 phil_bev@mail.com Rowland Amber 0220901293 rowlandpambler@hotmail.com |
Genealogy or whakapapa searches
Genealogy/whakapapa researchers can search our online cemetery database to find cemetery records by family name.
Our cemetery data has been collected from various sources over more than 100 years. We apologise for any errors or omissions in this record