CHURCH STEEPLE STOLEN
ITS WEIGHT NEARLY A TON REMOVAL OF COPPER PLATES. .. VALUE SAID TO BE OVER £3OO. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, April 28. ./ An impudent thief has virtually stolen the steeple of the new St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church. Actually a quantity of beaten copper, valued at over £3OO, has been removed. The earthquake failed to ruin the church, which on February 3 was nearly completed, but the fire which followed damaged the structure extensively and destroyed the wooden framework of the steeple, the copper falling to the ground inside the church. It has recently been discovered that these sheets, the total .weight of which was nearly a ton, have been removed. The full value of the copper ordered for the church was about £4OO. All that now remains is the covering of the small pinnacles standing at the corners of the the top of the tower.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1931, Page 9
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