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SY Aurora - Spencer Smith Memorial Service 2026
 

Remembering Arnold Spencer-Smith @ All Saints Dunedin

Michael Wallace —

Monday March 9th 2026 is when the 110th anniversary of the death of Rev. Arnold Spencer-Smith is being remembered at All Saints' Church, Dunedin.

Antarctic explorer, Padre, Photographer to the Ross Sea Party of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

The following is planned for Monday 9th March:

  • 5.30pm Mass using Spencer-Smith’s chalice & paten

  • 6.30pm Reception in All Saints’ Hall

  • 7.00pm 8th annual Spencer-Smith Lecture: ‘The SY Aurora – a ship with a need, Port Chalmers – a community responds’, given by Pat Caswell, Volunteer at Port Chalmers Maritime Museum.

All welcome, nau mai, haere mai.

All Saints’ Church 786 Cumberland St, Dunedin www.allsaintsdn.org.nz 4792212