This is the second church in the small town of Okaihau in the far north. In early 1874 a Captain Burleigh applied to the Anglican Church Missionary Society in England to provide funds to build the first church in Okaihau. The land was donated by the owner of the general store and Totara tree timbers were used and donated. The St Catherine's church is still being used today by the local community.
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St Patrick's Church in Okaihau - has a very strange energy about it whenever I've visited it over the years. Most likely the land itself and around the church was the site of battles during the New Zealand wars in the 1800s.
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I spotted this display in our local Mitre 10 hardware store. While I love the idea of gumboots (as well call them) for women, I'm not ...
