NEW BOOTS FOR BISHOP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 16 (Supplement)

NEW BOOTS FOR BISHOP.

" GOLDEN APPLE" CEREMONY. CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S COLONY. Tli" Hishop of 1 >ondon was recently the principal I figure in inl.eiesting ceremonies at the. Heritage Craft. Schools at Chnvl, Sussex. In this colony, which is often callcl the. public school of crippledom, cripple thil'lr.-n are gi\en skilled treatmen I, arid suitable ones are taught useful crafts an«l t) ados. An appin 11 co. in bloom and bearing golden apple.*," each represent ing a I gill of £SO toward (lie cost of new per--1 manenl. buildings, v.as dedicated by tlio i bishop, ami aho flu- sit" given by an llarmvian, ( '•.!<■ 11 ■■ I 1!. \\ . 111 -•i i , |'<,r new I buildings, vhu h will replace, army Inits. ! Among the gilts •which the biship ic--1 reived fiom the children were a tennis I racket, hockey slick, ;uh.l some golf ball-, | and golf stocking . " I .scored three gojls last Christmas at hockey," ho remarked. | *' With this new stii.k I shall bn able to score sic next Christmas.' In the course, of a visit to t!je colony's marine hospital on the beich at, Tidemills, near Ncuh.-ven, tin- bishop chatted with the little patients, and received from the boys a. gift of a box of frcshiy-caught prawns, lobster-; and plaice. !,ater he sat on the steps of the bootmaker's shop, took off a gni'er, and was measured bv <i hoy for n pair of new boots, which the crippled er.if:s:i;c!i will make. At the girls' heritage at, ( hailey he took part in a game of stool ball. When the golden apnle tree fund has been eompleted a list of subscribers in a golden book is to be given to the Prince I of Wales, who has sent donations.