A WORKING PARSON.
EFFORT TO BUILD SUNDAY . ' SCHOOL. N WILL DO "BRICK WORK HIMSELF 1 (Special To The Times). AUCKLAND, Nov, 18. ' - <; As a result of an. article in the Star concerning my endeavour to build a hall for a Sunday school at New Lynn,” writes Rev. W. R. Rankin, “the mail brought me two letters, one signed by ‘Good Luck,’ in which was enclosed £1 and the other ciune from a gentleman, offering hie two doors. I accepted them most gratefully in the name of the children. Jin account was given of the .self-imposed' ta.sk of Mr- Rankin, who is-the Presbyterian minister at New Lynn and who intends to do the brickwork of the new building himself, 'as the funds will not run to employing labor. Mr. Rankin adds facetiously :* “I have been fortunate enough to escape the fees necessary to join , the Bricklayers’ Union. How would it be, if some of the union bricklayers came' cut to New Lynn and joined me, even if it were only for a day r” ’
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10744, 15 November 1928, Page 3
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173A WORKING PARSON. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10744, 15 November 1928, Page 3
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