NEW PLACE OF WORSHIP
ON CATHEDRAL SITE NEWS FROM NAPIER 111 about a month’s time a start will he made with the erection of a place of worship on the site of the St. John’s Cathedral. The building is to cost between £2OOO and £3OOO. A tender has been accepted for clearing the ruins from the site, and it is •anticipated that the clearing work will be commenced to-morrow. The new church is being* planned so that it will he in many respects of similar layout to the old cathedral. It will accommodate 500 people. Care is being taken to make the building as handsome as possible. It will he erect©.l in the middle of the old site, and some metal memorial plates found to have been undamaged by the fire and the earthquake will adorn its walls.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 8
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