Held at Oihi, Bay of Islands on Christmas Day in 1964, was the 150th anniversary of the 1814 Christmas service at which Samuel Marsden preached the first known sermon on New Zealand soil.
These images are from a collection of slides on New Zealand mission sites and churches, taken by Reverend Allan Ross Wards. The preacher, shown in both photos was the Reverend R E Marsden, a direct descendant of Samuel Marsden.
‘Church and People’, the national Anglican newspaper, devoted a December issue to the event. It is available here on Pūmotomoto.
