DIOCESAN EDUCATION SCHEME.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17586, 17 September 1917, Page 3

DIOCESAN EDUCATION SCHEME.

OPENING OF HOSTEL. AT., . -. HOKITIKA. Telegrams received in Christchurch on Saturday spoke of a.very successful opening: on Friday of a hostel for eirls established [by the AnElican Church in' connection with the District High School at Hokitika. The Rev C. v G. Mutter and Mr H. M. Bannehr represented the eastern part of the diocese and received a very warm welcome. All through the day telegrams were being: received from Christchurch. and Hokitika for the time, being seemed to bo the centre of the diocese.

! A corresponded says:—"The estab- ': lishment of the hostel has been one of the best things ever done by the Church on the Coast. It has stiffened up the people in the matter of enthusiasm and loyalty wonderfully. The whole district is very interested in the welfare of the hostel. . . . The Coast is an isolated place; the hostel will be a great'help." The purpose of the hostel is to Esther together and give a home to 'thg eirls who come from a distance to the High School. The Sisters of the Sacred Name hare sent two of their members over to take charge of the work and arrangements will be made by them for the training of the cirls under them in the- faith of the Church and in all other things not supplied by the State school, oo keen in the district on the work that some girls were actually in residence, before the opening. A letter from the West Coast says.: "We are quite sure that the number of girls will steadily grow as the people at a distance from Hokitika realise the advantages of sending them to the hostel." Even now it has been found necessary to turn a corrugated iron building attached to the hostel into a music room. It is understood that the Church people in Christchurch. have found the material for lining this building and that.the Hokitika folk are giving their j labour. i

Amongst the congratulatory telegrams received from Christchurch on Friday were many from different branches of the Association of the Love of God. Tliis association has been doing much work in Christchurch the last few months in organising drawingroom meeting:-, and explaining the whole of the educational scheme. Branches have been formed at Strainer. Rcdcliffs'. Clifton, Lower Riccarton. Upper Riccartori, Fendalton, Merivale. St Albans, etc. A good many of the streets in Christchurch have branches of their

own, and amongst names chosen for these latter branches, are St Gregory’s, St Christopher’s, The Namo of Jesus. Tho enthusiasm of the movement may ho gauged from the fact that fifteen of these branches telegraphed to tho Church officials at Hokitika on Friday. .