Country Churches of NZ 38. De-consecrated Roman Catholic Church, Waihau Bay, Bay of Plenty

I wrote and illustrated Country Churches of New Zealand. It was published in 2002 by New Holland, Publishers and is still on sale in bookshops. The publishers have kindly agreed to me re-publishing some of the book’s images and descriptions in this blog.

DECONSECRATED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,

WAIHAU BAY

A little to the west of Raukokore, near Waihau Bay, an old, de-consecrated Roman Catholic church is notorious for having been raided by the police and found to house a large cache of cannabis. News of this event appeared in the New Zealand Herald under the headline: 'Holy smoke - what a bumper haul'.

© DON DONOVAN

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