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Christ Church, Taita (Lower Hutt) Multi-Cache

Hidden : 4/25/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A multi-cache to yet again bring people to Wellington's oldest church. Christ Church was founded in Taita in 1854. The display board near the entrance lists the graves of people buried on the church property. Use this to complete the multicache.


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This one stage multicache is the third cache to bring people to this interesting site. There is also an Urban Illusion (GC1FV8A) hidden in the church grounds and Wellywood's Christ Church, Taita, mystery cache (GC4J0N8). More details about this historic building are available in these other cache descriptions. The following excerpt is of special note. "The significance of Christ Church far exceeds its age, it was the catalyst for Parliament deciding to pass the Historic Places Act (1954) and the later formation of the Historic Places Trust. This was the first time New Zealanders had lobbied to save an historic building. The Church and graveyard are now both a memorial to the faith and determination of the settler families and local Maori and to the vision of those who have worked for its preservation."

The current cache requires you to read through the display board and extract relevant information to allow you to locate the cache final which is hidden nearby in the suburb.

The final coordinates are South 41 AB.CDE  East 174 FG.HIJ where:

A = Plot number for William Stevenson

B = John Hooper minus Catherine Mitchell

C = Letters in surname of Katerina in plot 109

D = Letters in surname of family in Plot 9

E = Margaret Swaysland minus Joseph Sealy

F = Plot number for John Harvey

G = Middle number of Merle Carter's plot

H = Letters in surname of person buried in plot 193

I = Cecil Walter Rees

J = John Clement minus Lucy Clement

Checksum = 46

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Cache] Erznvaf bs fbzrguvat byq, ab arrq gb qvt ubyrf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)