MISSION YACHT AT LYTTELTON

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22082, 3 May 1937, Page 14

MISSION YACHT AT LYTTELTON

HUGE CROWD VESSEL APPRECIATION RESPONSE ' ~ ■;> ''' 'fc, The great interest taken in anesian mission was shown on 2000 persons visited the vSjf"?! since the send-off ceremonvlrtr-* pool, betore the vessel's her maiden. * number visited the yachLWkX i special tram, carrying mar* f £*■•» 4 passengers, arrived at wharf alongside the yacht densely packed, and twn stationed at the gangway ha/i Tjl uous hour shepherding thTwsfolr?! to the gangway. At times vessel were so crowded visitors had to be stopped aTttiSH way until some of left. Many of the visitors bonowff kets. bags, and other. artfcteSL% the islanders and which were dwjM for sale. At the Coronation Hall tituahali the waterfront, women ■niZgyj Holy Trinity ChurcKd S?s2li Church had provided aftemoco bS aid of the funds of the >niS£3| sum of £l2 being realised. YbSJE there were again many vtiSSl the yacht. In expressing his appreciation response of the public to tion to inspect the Southern rvl Major H. S. N. Robinson, asenSS and treasurer of the representative of “The was the biggest crowd that hadei visited the present or any ofTh! 3ii vious mission vessels dn™ a years in office. He said, that ha to thank all who had helped iow! the visit of the vessel eluding the Lyttelton Hazbcnri&S the Lyttelton Waterside W«3 Union, the railway aufbaritk««S p ohce. the Rev. Canon P. B. nSlii of Fendalton, who had oreanSisrs railway trip to Lyttettoi^tSe^ E. E. Malden, vicar of St SariS Church, West Lyttelton, faS* S women of the two Lyttelton churches. On Saturday night the island* the Southern Cross werneSSSS by the Christchurch AngOiartSl Class Union at St John’s Halt l2 terday the native minister* and brothers took part in the aoSI at the cathedral, and at the wSI Anglican churches in the CSty.^sSß