St. Paul's Methodist Church at Hokitika was erected in the year 1872, at a cost of £1200, on a site of two acres of land, with frontages to Tancred Street and Sewell Street. It has accommodation for 300 persons, and there is a fine pipe organ, and an excellent choir. The Sunday school has an attendance of about sixty children, under the charge of six teachers. The district includes Ross, Kanieri, Blue Spur, and Humphiey's. The church at Ross is under the charge of the minister at Hokitika. It is a wood and iron building with accommodation for about 120 persons. Services are held monthly. At Kanieri, where a small church was erected in the seventies, services are held every Sunday afternoon. At Kumara a home missionary is stationed, and the district is under the superintendence of the minister at Hokitika.