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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13586, 7 May 1906, Page 8

— Tile first place of worship ever ereefed at Perth, in Western Australia, is worthy of note not only by reason of the. unusual materials employed in its consruction, but because of the varied uses to which it was put. When, in 1829, the 2nd Company of the 63rd Regiment arrived in the colony, tho men proceeded to collect a quantity of rushes, from which they, with consHorable skill and ingenuity, constructed a small building, whore every Sunday Divine service was held. For more secular purposes, however, did it serve, for not on]y was it employed a s a barracks, but at intervals it did duty as a theatre, on the boards of which its builders were wont to display ' tW,r tokifluifi ability.