St Paul Church / AFWT Serie #12 Multi-Cache

THE MULTI CACHE

ATTENTION It seems that one of the blue marbles is missing, and I am not able to replace it soon. When doing your counting please add one to the blues. Thanks.

This is another short but fun multi on the AFWT series. It will take you just around 10 minutes to complete it as all the steps are within 30 meters. This is a quite busy street, so stealth is required specially on the first steps. 

You will soon find something odd on the given coordinates. The first step is fixed to a white pipe, with a tool attached to one of the ends, just unscrew the tool (if it does not fall instantly from the bottom end, just push it out with your fingers) and use it to retrieve the container, with instructions for the next steps, from the white pipe. Leave it back in its location when done, but just with a gentle screw, it will be enough, otherwise you will perforate it! ;) Step 2 is just a few steps away!! Try to figure it out for a bit on your own, but PLEASE, NO FORCE IS REQUIRED, be gentle with it as you don't have to torn it, stick anything into it, break it or anything... Just try to reason the mechanism, but if you struggle with it take a look on the hints. Please, leave everything as you found it. With the lids back covering everything (I know they are tight, but it is easy to put it back).

Have a good time, and HAPPY HUNTING!!

HISTORY OF ST PAUL

St Paul's on Symonds Street in Auckland is an historic Anglican church near The University of Auckland. 

St Paul's is Auckland's oldest church, known as the "Mother Church" of Auckland as the original St Paul's was the first church to be built in the city, in the same year that the original town was established. The St Paul's foundation stone was laid by Governor William Hobson on 28 July 1841, and the first service was held on 7 May 1843.

The first St Paul’s was built in Emily Place, just off Princes St, where a plaque still marks the site of the beginning of God’s church in the city of Auckland. Old St Paul’s was located in the heart of the colonial city, alongside the remnants of the old pā, Rangipuke in Albert Park, where Ngati Whātua had defended their rohe during the Musket Wars of the 1820s. During the height of the New Zealand Wars in the 1860s, the church was used as a safe haven for women, children and the elderly – its location in the midst of the city, near the garrison, made St Paul’s ideal for this traditional church role of providing sanctuary in times of strife. 

St Paul’s prominence in colonial society shifted as the geography of Auckland developed over time. St Paul’s shifted; embracing the changing needs of the city for which it had been built. The Emily Place church was demolished in 1885, and a temporary wooden church, designed by William Skinner, was erected on the corner of Short St and Eden Crescent to house the congregation while a permanent site was identified.

The new church was dedicated in 1894, despite the absent corner tower and steeple that had been part of Skinner’s original design in Emily Place. The Long Depression of the 1880s and 1890s had impacted the Anglican Church’s ability to build such a monumental church and the decision was made to keep the interior plain, with any ornament coming from the Rose Window.