BUSY TIMES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 5

BUSY TIMES

BISHOP BENNETT’S - PROGRAMME ‘

The - -Ri. Rev. F. *A. Bennett,' Bishop of Aoteapoa, is fared with a busy time for the 'next few weeks. ' Yesterday afternoon His Lordship conducted a sendee at Holy Trinity for- adult candidates for communion and, last- evening, at' the chapel of the Waprenga-aThika College, he conseveral members of the school; Tb-'morrow morning at 11 o’clock' ’ Bishop Bennett will conduct a con-, firmation service in Patutahi, this ceremony being followed by Holy Communion; and in the. evening, ho js to take a; similar* service at Wae-‘ renga-a : hika parish chifrch., for candidates from the Waerenga-a-hika and Te Karaka parishes. pn Monday Bishop Bennett retitrris to*'Hawke’s Bay; and on Tuesday hie' is ,to present the prizes at the HukarCre-school for Maori girls. On the Wednesday of the following'week he will perform a similar duty'afc the Technical’High School in Napier, and-on/-Thursday,’ December IS. he will' deliver the .address at the breaking-: up ceremony at lona College, Haver look North; i\rasterton will see His Lordship on the following day.. when ' the presentation of prizes at St. * Matthew’!?.. School will be carried out by him. . Returning to Hawke’s Ray again, l lie • will': depart on December 22 for Rotorua'., attd will spend Christmas Day at< the new .native settlement of Horohoro,, where a wide expanse of couiitlT" has jbeeii; brbiight under Sir. ApjralKi /’Ngata’s* 'scliieine of settle'-; merit' 'for native farming: Sir Apirana* arid othpr members: of [Parliament. are t6.’, ; 'b’e present on the .same occasion;' it is understood. ‘On December l og. Bishop Bennett -will proceed to Pukekohe: tb attend the annual Bible class .camp of Anglican boys. : Late ; "ih' January arid early in February Bishop Bennett .will return to the Easb ; *Cpast;fd’r a series of visits to Maori communities there.