CLINTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS. The fiftieth anniversary of the Clinton Presbyterian Church will celebrate next Thursday when a jubilee social will be held. The present church building was opened during the pastorate of the third settled minister of the parish (the Rev. J. M. Spence). Clinton was then the centre of a wide parish embracing tho present districts of Clydevale, Taumata, Popotunoa, Waiwera, Wairuna and Clinton Gorge. The Rev. J. M. Spence was often to be seen riding round his parish on his big horse Spanker, a gift from the New Zealand and Australian Land Company. It was said that tho Maoris of Hawke’s Bay had taught Mr Spence to ride and that partly accounted for the fast pace he usually adopted. Clinton has been for some 40 years under no-license, but the Clinton of those days supported three or four licensed houses, and though the residents had no motor cars, wireless or gramophones, they had considerable choice in the matter of liquid refreshments. The present church building was erected by Mr Watson Rhodes, well known in later years throughout Otago in connection with construction work.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 14
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