Members of the Newton Pacific Islanders Congregational Church (PICC) leave the church after a service in the 1960s. At the time it was customary to wear formal ('Sunday best') clothing to church: the men sport suits and ties and the women wear dresses and hats. The first Pacific Island church in New Zealand, the PICC was founded in 1947 in the inner-city Auckland suburb of Newton. The community took over an existing building (left), and in 1962 opened a new church next door (right). The original building was demolished in the late 1970s and replaced by the Elisi and Fisher halls complex.
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Private collection, Melani Anae
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