MARLBOROUGH MISSIONARY
MEMORIAL TABLET UNVEILED.
[per press association.]
BLENHEIM. May 31
An interesting ceremony, recalling the earliest days of settlement in New Zealand, was carried out at Tuamarina Methodist Church, last night, when a tablet, was unveiled to the memory of Samuel Ironside, one of the two pioneer missionaries of the South Island.
Mr. Ironside and his wife established a mission among the whalers and Maoris at Port Underwood in December, IS-10, and during his ministry built sixteen churches in various parts of Marlborough Sounds. The mission hud to be abandoned after the terrible clash between the Maori and Pakeha at Tuarnarina, on June 17. ISI3. when Mr. Ironside buried those killed on the hill, adjacent to the present church, a handsome concrete structure recently erected to replace the original wooden building, built exactly sixty years ago.
The unveiling ceremony was performed by tho Rev. M. R. Rugby Pratt, of Christchurch, who was a personal friend of Mr. and Mrs. Ironside in their declining years at Hobart.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1935, Page 6
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