£440,000 MORMON TEMPLE
Laying Of Foundation Stone PARTLY-FINISHED HALL USED FOR SERVICE (New Zeaiana Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 23. A service to mark the laying of the foundation stone of the Mormon “Temple in the South Pacific” by Elder H. B. Brown, of Salt Lake Ctiy, was held yesterday. The temple—the second to be built in the British Commonwealth and the thirteenth in the world—is rising near the £2,500,000 church coeducational college, which is being erected in Tuhikaramea road, five miles from Hamilton. Hundreds of Maoris and Islanders packed the huge, partly-finished auditorium inside the temple to listen to addresses by church presidents and elders, and to sing frevently. European members of the con- ? negation were almost all Americans rom the large American colony supervising the work at the college. The temple, when completed, will have cost £440,000. It will be of five storeys, and have a tower 175 ft high. The hill on which it stands is 170 ft high.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28159, 24 December 1956, Page 9
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