SERVICE IN RANGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22695, 6 April 1937, Page 6

SERVICE IN RANGES

ARCHBISHOP'S VENTURE MOTOR-TRUCK FOR PULPIT [raoir our own correspondent] MELBOURNE, March 30 Four hundred campers, hikers and local residents gathered round a simple wooden cross in a nave of gum trees high in the i)andenong Ranges at dawn yesterday to join in an Easter Monday service conducted by the Archbishop of Melbourne, the Rt. Rev. FW. Head. It was the first service of the kind held in the hills, which are a favourite holiday resort for Melbourne residents in much the same way as the Waitakeres attract Aucklanders. The Anglican Church, under the leadership of Archbishop Head, has been playing a prominent part in taxing religious services to the people at their holiday places. At the beginning of the summer the archbishop initiated a series of Sunday afternoon services at the beaches, and in this late s | venture he was accorded tho cordia co-operation of other denominations. A Salvation Army band, for instance, supplied the music. Archbishop Head conducted the device from a motor-truck. The gation, wrapped in overcoats, sto silently beneath a group of tall g l trees that dripped moisture arter night of rain. Holiday-makers had ar by lamplight and had ascended the » slope on which the service was , * Many young women in boots and ri ij breeches, gaily-coloured shiris « berets, joined in the devotions 1 setting out for a tramp m tne Thero were • also many _ elderly p and numerous children in the ? £on D o. A dawn service was also held day on the summit of Mount ington, Hobart, Tasmania. Dri g goo snow and sleet lashed the f ffl£U je _ worshippers; many of whom o5 ■ the arduous journey from the foot. . ~ '