TAUPO NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 112, 14 May 1929, Page 15

TAUPO NEWS.

VISIT OF BISHOP SEDGWICK. r SITE FOR XEtV/CHtfRCH. • ;• ;The Bishop of Waitfiu has "concluded a pliant week's visif to Taupo where a social was tendered. The, Bislh P aim MM. Sedgwick were heartily- velcwneflw the Rev. Paul Temuera. Mr. K. H.. vvaru presented the accounts of St. /""JfJ Church. The Rickit family have donated a section as a site for a church The com mittee hag £333 in hand towards the brnlfl ing fund. ' The bishop gave.the history. of the appointment of a bishop for the Maori people. Bishop Bennett's work was not confined to this district, but his diocese covered all New Zealand, and his services .were available to all the bishops, for native work. Conferences have taken place on the subject of appointing, a pakeha-curate for the district. The Rev. Temuera Is a missionary to the Maoris, but also.holOs tne English services. The b«h°p thinks two ministers would have plenty to do tcat to 1 ft t<xi the congregations in this wide^ ana scattered district. TW S# .Toatter. £ under further consideration. The *%*%*&* tioned the great benefit he and his, wife hau experienced from the short change in xaupo. Tlfe Rev. J. G. T.aughton expressed the goou T$U of Taupo Presbyterians. DEVELOPMENT SIGNS. ■ There is a good deal of building here at Present. The new concrete gin-age, one 01 the finest between here and Auckland, has been handed over by the contractors. , *°«F residences are in different stage* o\prection. The Tourist Bureau, near the wharf, nas keen completed, and will be in use nextjeat>p. Some disappointment is felt that u OS'been-placed so far from, the town centre. Palmer's mill has been sent to new bush area, and a Tokaanu company, nas established a timber yard here. A popnjar lady visitor arrived a day or two ago, purchased ten sections in the. town, let a,cou tract for a handsome home, and returned to Scotland. She intends to come out nere tvery year with her friends. WewW: •tlier activities show that Taupo is a glow ■ilSff-.resQtt.