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Show LDS Church Dedicates New Temple, College Products in New Zealand A multi-million dollar "do-it-yourself project is being dedicated dedi-cated this week by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Tuhikaramea, near Hamilton, New Zealand. The gleaming white New Zealand Temple ($1 million) and the Church College of New Zealand ($7 million) area, trib- McKay student center are the largest auditorium, swimming pool, gymnasium arid organ of any New Zealand school. Eight years ago, a modest small farm and peat swamp; now it is a' self-contained corrf-munity corrf-munity of nearly 1,000 people. ute alike to American ingenuity ingen-uity and the faith and devotion of the LDS Church members in the South Pacific. David O. McKay, 84-year-old world president of the church, flew 7,000 miles to dedicate the temple on April 20. The college is being dedicated today. to-day. All the work both supervisory supervis-ory and general labor was donated! do-nated! And most of the building materials ma-terials were provided by the church to avoid a drain on New Zealand's commercial supplies. Supervisors are skilled artisans art-isans and builders from America Am-erica who left their jobs at the call of church leaders to direct the project. The workers, as many as 400 of them, also spend two years as "labor missionaries." Food and clothing are provided by church members. Then there are the materials. Lumber comes from a church timber tract and sawmill to the joinery for finishing work. Aggregate Ag-gregate materials for concrete and concrete blocks come from two church quarries to a modern mod-ern plant, producing up to 8,000 blocks daily. Rising 157 feet atop a prominent prom-inent knoll, the temple faces the 40 or more buildings of the college. Surrounding the project pro-ject is a 1500-acre farm which will make the school virtually sel-sufficient. Included in the 85,000 square feet of the college's David O. |