Perth Voice Interactive

THE Buddhist furnace at the Harold Street Indo-China Benevolent Association will be allowed to stay.

Residents had complained the unauthorised incinerator—used to burn paper money and incense for the dead—was smoking out the neighbourhood and causing health issues.

Ian Lu, an architect with the association, said they’d be willing to tone down use of the incinerator to only burn paper during the Ulanbana Festival, “an opportunity for the family members to pay homage to their loved ones who … live in the other world”.

The council has approved that restricted use and also asked that doors facing Wright Street be closed during “drumming, ringing of bells, amplified music, singing, chanting and the like”.

by DAVID BELL