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The impressive and colourful Consecration service was performed the glare of television lights and was witnessed by hundreds from all over the Nelson diocese

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The Chancellor, Mr I. E. Fitchett, reads the Sentence of Consecration

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A solemn moment: Watched by the senior Bishop of the Anglican Church in New Zealand, the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt Rev. H. W. Baines, Bishop Sutton makes the sign of the Cross over the Consecration Stone in the sanctuary

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The Governor-General, Sir Arthur Porritt, read the Epistle

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The Bishop of Wellington, The Rt Rev. H. W. Baines, read the Gospel

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The Cathedral choir added to the colour, pomp and pageantry of the Consecration

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The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Kirk (right) with the M.P. for Nelson, Stan Whitehead, and Mrs Whitehead, after the Consecration

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Bishop Sutton escorted Sir Arthur Porritt and Bishop Baines escorted Lady Porritt from the Cathedral, at the end of the Consecration

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Mrs and Major R. P. Marshall and Rev. W. R. Otter of Cheviot

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Mrs M. R. Willitts, wife of the Moderator of the Marlborough Presbytery, and Mrs E. A. Winter, wife of the Presbyterian Minister at Tahunanui

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Mrs D. Gribble, Mrs P. H. Swears and Janet Morris