DEDICATION SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 7

DEDICATION SERVICE

Two Maori Deaconesses ’

Two Maori sisters, Sister Awhina Ngati Mete and Sister Marama Muriwai, who have completed three years of training at the Methodist’Deaconess House, Latimer Square, Christchurch, were dedicated and farewelled at a service held this week. ’ The service marked the close'of the 1933 session at Deaconess House. Both sisters will take up social work among their own ■ people. Sister-Marama Muriwai will leave immediately for Te Awamutu, in the King Country, while Sister Awhina Ngati Mete will enter the Christchurch Bublic Hospital early in 1934 for further training. The common room, in-which the service was held, was beautifully decorated witlr delphiniums and yellow Iceland popples. The Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt„chairman of the Deaconess Connexlonal Committee, conducted the service and. the Rev. H,..Ryan offered the dedicatory prayer. The sisters were presented to the ..chairman by;the lady superintendent, Miss A. E. Sewell, who said that they had completed their training with conspicuous success, Oh/behalf of tlie church Mr. Pratt and, the Rev. C. Eaton, president-elect of the Methodist Conference, welcomed the new sisters to the Order of Methodist Deaconesses, The sisters briefly responded.