PIONEER MISSIONARIES.
MEMORIAL CHURCH ERECTED. CONSECRATION TO MORROW’. (Special lo flic Herald ) AI'CKI.AND. this day. Nearly 100 descendants of the pioneer missionaries Archdeacon Henry Williams and Bishop William Williams will gather at Paihia, North Auckland, to-morrow lo win ess the eonseernt ion cl ihe Memorial Church. Bishop Williams arrived in New Zealand in l,S2(i, Archdeacon Homy Williams having landed Hirer years earlier. The memorial church is built of Gone quarried ni 'lie Bay of Islands. \ room has been provideo where doevimenis of a hisiovie nature and relies relating to mission work will be preserved, The lillings ruu'l decorations of the church are the gUls of members of Hie family. The enr:s"cralion ceremony will be conducted by Archbishop Averill, and Archdeacon If, W. Williams will preach the* opening sermon.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16942, 26 January 1926, Page 5
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128PIONEER MISSIONARIES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16942, 26 January 1926, Page 5
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