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INTERESTING CEREMONY. f Per Press Association. — i:om/rlaht.l ■ BLENHEIM, This Day. An interesting ceremony, recalling the earliest days of settlement in New Zealand, was carried out at the Tuamarina Methodist Church last night, when a tablet was unveiled to the memory of the Rev. Samuel Ironside, one of the two pioneer missionaries of the South Island. Mr Ironside, with his wife, established a mission* among the whalers and Maoris at Port Underwood in December, 1840, and during his ministry he built 16 churches in various parts of the Marlborough Sounds. The mission had to be abandoned after the terrible clash between the Maori and Pakeha &t Tuamarina on June 17, 1843, when Mr Ironside buried those who were killed on the hill adjacent to the present church, a handsome concrete structure recently erected to replace the original wooden building built exactly 60 years ago. The unveiling ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. Rugby Pratt, of Christchurch, who was a personal friend of Mr and Mrs Ironside in their declining years at Hobart.
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Northern Advocate, 31 May 1935, Page 7
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