"SHABBY AND WORM-EATEN."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 7

"SHABBY AND WORM-EATEN."

CHURCH AT MOB&IHSVIIXE. NEW STRUCTURE WANTED. (Ft Telesrrapli—Own Correspondent.) MORRKS VIL.LE, this day.

The urgent necessity of a new Anglican church at Morrinsville is commented upon in the April number of the "Waikato Diocesan Magazine." It is stated that St. Matthew' 6 Church, Morrinsville, which was built over 30 years ago, when the town wsls little more than a name, is now too small for the ordinary Sunday congregations. At its last meeting the vestry set up a committee to collect data and report on the question of building a new permanent church. When it was built in the closing years of last century the present church doubtless represented a worthy effort on the part of & handful of settlers in the struggling days before the dairy industry brought wealth into the district. Now" it stands a little shabby worra-eaten structure in a growing centre of a fertile farming district.

"We believe that it will be replaced shortly through tlie earnest co-operation of the whole pari&h, and not be allowed to remain in its decrepitude, and show to the scoffers how apparently little we care for the things of God."