EASTER SERVICES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLI, Issue 5937, 26 March 1913, Page 3

EASTER SERVICES.

At Holy Trinity Church the Holy j Week and Good Friday services were • very well attended. The three hours' ; service taken by the Vicar, though an • innovation in the parish, was appreci- . uted and entered into by a very good i congregation. j On Saturday the Bishop of the i Diocese arrived after a most success- * ful journey up the East Coast. lie j left Napier in the- second week in i ■ Ftbruary, and has visited all the white and Maori congregations this side of Gisborne. Among the many episcopal acts of the tour the Bishop j is opening four new Maori churches, j " one next Sunday at Te Matai, Te j .Puke. On Saturday the Bishop ad- j ministered the holy rite of confirma- • tion in Trinity Church, when there' were ten candidate?. J On Easter Day there was a specially < large r.umber of com it. uui cants both at j Tauranga and Gate Pa. The Bishop | preached both morning and evening,l to large congregations, and in the al- j tcrnoon he held a Maori confirmation at Maungatapu. l On Tuesday the Bishop went over .1 to Motiti Island and confirmed eleven 1 Maoris. (He. with Canon Goodyear j ard the Revs. E. D. Rice, F. Bennett, j

ar.d Ropere, were very hospitably entertained. . i This evening there is a social in | the Opera Bouse to give the parhhion- i ers of Tauranga an opportunity to j meet the Bishop, and discuss some j parochial matters. J