CHURCH DESECRATION
a drunken party holds revels in sacred building HOLY VESSELS STOLEN Christchurch Suilday. The deseeration of the Anglican Church at Flaxton by a drunken
party, which left behind it a litter oi empty beer bottles, is reported. The instruders damaged a kerosene lamp, stole holy vessels and eucharistic vestments and removed a kerosene heater. It is helieved that the affair was more a drunken spree than deliberate theft or profanation because a few days after the incident occurred, some men were observed returning th'e kerosene heater. They escaped from pursuit. Th vessels stolen were not of any great intrinsic value as they were of plated metal, hut they had a value from age. At the same time a theft occurred at Clarkville church where a Sunday School money box, containing a few shillings was stolen.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 627, 4 September 1933, Page 5
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