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Notes: On the journey up from Customs Street to the University of Auckland, there is a small inner city park, popular with nearby office workers, at Emily Place. But it is not generally known that the Emily Place Reserve stretches back to the earliest days of Auckland. Here, the original St Paul's Anglican church was built and its foundation stone laid by Capt William Hobson, Governor of New Zealand, on 28 July 1841.
Its first minister was the Rev. John Churton who had come to Auckland from Russell in the Bay of Islands, where he was gazetted colonial chaplain. In that capacity he read the prayers at the opening session of the Legislative Council in 1846. The Rev. Churton died in 1853 and later his contribution to the young town was marked with a memorial obelisk.
St Paul's Anglican church was demolished in 1885 to facilitate the reclamation needed to improve nearby railway and port facilities. This required the cutting down of Point Britomart.
The church's replacement 'new St Paul's' was built on Symonds Street. In 1901, steps were taken to re-erect the Churton Memorial Obelisk, which had also been demolished.
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