Pleasure-seekers who travelled to Kohimarama by the land route to the carnival on Monday passed relics of early missionary enterprise, the mins of that historic house of prayer, the old church at Tamaki (states the Auckland “Herald”). At the carnival grounds they had well in view yet another. memorable church, the old stone structure at Kohimarama, erected by Bishop Selwyn in 1859, and built of stone brought by native converts from Rangitoto. Around were all the suggestions of modernity—the seaplane running passenger trips, the ferry-boat coming and going with its loads of pleasure-seekers, and a long line of motor-cars parked in the Kayfield. Three splendid Norfolk Island pines here rise straight and lofty to the sky. Said to be the first trees of this typo raised in New Zealand, they worn olnnted respectively bv Bishop Selwyn, Bishop Patteson, and Bishop Abraham.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11415, 11 January 1923, Page 6
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