WAIRARAPA NEWS. THE REV. A. C. YORKE AND HIS CONGREGATION.

Evening Post, Volume LIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1897, Page 5

WAIRARAPA NEWS. THE REV. A. C. YORKE AND HIS CONGREGATION.

[by telegbaph. — own correspondent.] Masterton, This Day. At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Matthew's Church last evening, the parishioners' churchwarden moved that the attention of the Bishop's Commissary be drawn to the recent utterances of the Rev. A. C. Yorke, and that the Vestry be consulted if Mr. Yorke desires to withdraw his resignation. Mr. Yorko, who was chairman of the meeting, ruled the motion to be ultra vires. In doing so he said he had no intention of withdrawing his resignation as Vicar. Cahterton, This Day. The opening up of new roads and growth of settlement in the Taratahi-Carterton district is forcing upon the notice of the Road Board the necessity for securing the services of a competent engineer for permanent employment. A committee was appointed on Saturday to report on the question. The maintenance of the many miles of new roads and bridges is becoming a cause of great uneasiness to the Board, the rates, which have already been anticipated, not being suflkient to keep the roads in decent order for traffic. That part of the Hurunui-Orangi bridge and also that part of the Kokotau bridge carried away by the recent floods had not | long been erected, and it was hastily, and as it now proves wrongly, blamed on the contractor and engineer for not carrying out the work properly. Mr. Hay, Governmeut Engineer, who has been up and reported on the catastrophe, holds the engineer and contractor blameless