UNVEILING MEMORIALS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22722, 7 May 1937, Page 12

UNVEILING MEMORIALS

CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION CEREMONY ON SUNDAY Three stone memorials are to be unveiled by Archbishop Averill at the Church of the Ascension, Point Chevalier, on Sunday morning. One will be to the Rev. W. E. Gillam, first vicar of the church from 1926 to 1929, another to the Rev. Edgar Ward, vicar from 1929 to 1931, and the third to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Armstrong, who gave the land and the church to the parish. The church was opened on Palm Sunday, 1918, and was completely free from debt, Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong having given the land, built and equipped the church, and donated enough additional land for a vicarage and a proposed Sunday school. Tho gift was made in 1917, and from the opening until 1926 the church was placed under the care of St. Columba's, Grey Lynn. Mr. Gillam, who was a former vicar of St.

Matthew's Church, Army chaplain and chaplain to the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Brigade, was first vicar of the parish, and Mr. "Ward followed him.

A Processional Cross of nickelled brass, with a rimu staff, has been presented to the church by the vicar's warden, Mr. H. V. Hampton, and Mrs. Hampton, and it also wijl be dedicated on Sunday. The festival service of the Ascension was celebrated yesterday by Communion and a Mothers' Union service was also held. Canon Fnncourt, of St. Mary's Cathedral, preached at the church last night. The service on Sunday will take the special form of the prescribed Coronation service.