NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 57, 7 March 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A Text. —"Thy "Word is a lamp unto my feet and a'light unto my path."— Pi aim 119, 10JL/ _ ■ * • • The new assistant master at the Blind Institute is the Rev. Ernest Chitty. The Rev. R. Hill Johnson has been instituted vicar at Takapuna in succession to the Rev. R. H. Trill, now in England. • • • • The new vicar of St. Matthew's, the Rev. George V. Gerard, was awarded the Military Cross for his conduct in the Great War. • • • • The diamond jubilee of Bcresford Street Congregational Church is to- be celebrated this month during the week Sunday, March 22, to Sunday March 29. • • • * Protestant clergymen and laymen in Mount Albert were among those present at the farewell social to Father MacGrath, who has been transferred to Island Bay, Wellington. A Catholic orphanage for girls has been opened in Christchurch. It is a two-storeyed building of reinforced concrete and stands in 10 acres of giound. The new chairman of the Congregational Assembly, which began its meetings this week in Dunedin, -is a wellkiiown* Christchurch layman, Mr. Henry St urge. Wise Sayings.—"There is always a new horizon for onward-looking men." "To learn where one's knowledge ends and one's ignorance begins is to take, perhaps, the most important step along the path of wisdom." "One of the reasons for hoping to remain some time longer in this very troubled and strange world is a curiosity to-see .what women can do and -"Will do."