CHURCH DAMAGED
BY MILITANT PROTESTANTS,, (United Press Association—By Electric X! LONDON, August 9. Locking the Vicar, Reverend pßerniard i EalkeV 'ih the vestryj :; ‘overpowering the bellringer, who tried to sound 'the'-alarni, 5 two bhairabatjfc 5 loMs : o-f• t tnens/and' womfeh, members iteetanfe ©nth- Society, led' hy' Ji 'Eeni.ziony' Oornwallf aiid removed a nunv ' her. of..arlabfeg ahd brnainents, iiiblud'the figure 1 of the fMadonna and Gbild, Oruoifixioii votive candles and*'lumps. ' ' •: The raiders ■■ used hammers, chisels and crawbars, ‘ -'and 'broke a fifteenth century font. •>;} r ' ';■ : c Kensit claimed that the< Consistory Court in February authorised’ thp removal of the ornaments. He'’added: rr We- have done what was- done in England, in Refomartion days. .‘-iflf
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1932, Page 6
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