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noted had financed the building of the church at his own expense. In 1864, the church was referred to as the
Octagon House of Worship and a small reading library was present. In 1878 a subsidy of £2 towards a public library located inside the church was granted by the government. During 1886, a meeting was held to determine if the building should be renovated with a replacement roof made from kauri shingles, the work was agreed to and carried out by Mr Whitehead and his son Thomas. The building was reroofed again using kauri shingles in 1919.
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In 1892, the Ball property the church was sited upon was sold to Joseph and Samuel Foster, passing on to the latter and eventually into the ownership of John Foster and retained by the family until 1936 when the church and the site it was located on were ceded to the
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The church was built by settler Thomas Ball and others from kauri Ball had supplied and was opened on 7 April 1861. The report of the time period described the building as octagonal in form, with weatherboard framing and a steep-pitched roof thatched with rushes and was well lit. Ball it was also
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