WAIWHETU ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 15, 6 September 1928, Page 6

WAIWHETU ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Visitors to the little Anglican Churek in White's Line East, are mildly surprised every {Sunday evening at the 7 o'clock service to see one or other of the ladies of the congregation disappear to the kit-chen-vestry half-an-hour before the close of the service, not to return again for some minutes. The mystery is solved pleasantly when, at the end of the service, they are asked to remain for a cup of tea and a biscuit. The "ice" is broken, literally and metaphorically, and: people begin to thaw and to make the acquaintance of their fellow Church members. The innovation is quite a success. In a scattered district like Waiwhetu and: the long stretch of White's Line and the new Moera Settlement, this little friendship meeting, as it is called, is a real boon. Evidently some of our four-footed friends think well of it; one dog attending regularly every Sunday and at alt the socials, another feature of the social life of this now very live district. It i» a pity to sound a note not quite so plaa3ant, but there is one. It is the smallness of the attendance at the Sunday School,, which is held every week at 2.30 p.m.. Surely a little encouragement should begiven to those faithful workers who up their time all the year round—noSunday at the beach for them in summer like other young folk, or a book by the nre in winter, but the sacrifice is not counted. A little encouragement from parents by sending children to the school would be all the payment required. Picnic time is not far ahead. One does not like to say it, but the Sunday b.efore 'ast year's picnic we could not seat all pvesent, but after—You know what Kiplingsaid? "That is another story 77! UolL up, children!