Tomorrow Methodists of Wellington are to celebrate the centennial of the establishment of the first Methodist circuit in Wellington. Left, the Rev. John Aldred, who arrived at Port Nicholson in 1840 and founded the first church; and the Rev. William Kirk, who was responsible for the building of the church which was burnt down in Manners Street in 1879, and afterwards the building of the present Wesley Church in Taranaki Street. Centre, the first Wesleyan Chapel in Manners Street. Right, the Rev. Percy Paris, the present minister.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 7
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87Tomorrow Methodists of Wellington are to celebrate the centennial of the establishment of the first Methodist circuit in Wellington. Left, the Rev. John Aldred, who arrived at Port Nicholson in 1840 and founded the first church; and the Rev. William Kirk, who was responsible for the building of the church which was burnt down in Manners Street in 1879, and afterwards the building of the present Wesley Church in Taranaki Street. Centre, the first Wesleyan Chapel in Manners Street. Right, the Rev. Percy Paris, the present minister. Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 7
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