Presbyterian Moderator Starts NZ.Tour At Kaitaia
KAITAIA, Thu. (Sp.).—Commencing a New Zealand-wide tour the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (Rev. C. J. Tocker, Invercargill) visited Kaitaia on Tuesday.
After participating in the 16th anniversary celebrations of the Kaitaia Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union, he left by air yesterday for Kaikohe, and will be in Whangarei this week-end. ' t
of the male members of the congregation. Mr Tocker brought greetings’ from the Church of New Zealand and from, his own congregation of St Paul's, Invercargill. The anniversary celebrations concluded with an afternoon, meeting at which Sirs Graham presided. . In a forceful address Mr Tocker discounted any suggestion of weakness iu the church today. His experience throughout New Zealand hod led liiur to see not the weakness but the strength of the church, he said. Mr Tocker congratulated the Kaitaia PWMU on having passed its 16th milestone, ...
More than VO people were present at a PWMU luncheon on Tuesday. I Presiding, the Rev. J. Graham welI coined the moderator and also visitors | from outlying districts and from sister ' churches.
Replies were made by Mesdames ! o. Williams (Ivaitaia Methodist). 11. D. I Foster (Mangonui), Bridgeford and Hicks (Awanui), R. Matthews (Church 1 of England). P. R. Atkinson (KaiI angaroa) and Mr J. Cowie on behalf
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Northern Advocate, 19 May 1949, Page 7
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