Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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The Church Of Christ in Oamaru holds its services in the City Temple, Thames Street, a building that is rented from the Athenæum committee, but a plot of two acres, known as the old mill site in Severn Street, has been bought with a view to the erection of a new church. It was in 1880 that members of the Church of Christ first began to organise themselves in Oamaru; regular services have been held since 1886. and in the present building since 1897. The City Temple is a stone building with seating accommodation for 200 worshippers, and in 1903 there were 110 members, who had doubled in number since the preceding year. A Sunday school is regularly held; there are over a hundred scholars on the roll, with an average attendance of eighty and there is a teaching staff of twelve.