CHURCH MEMORIALS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22724, 10 May 1937, Page 12

CHURCH MEMORIALS

POINT CHEVALIER SERVICE During; the special Coronation service at the Church of the Ascension, Point Chevalier, yesterday morning, three stone memorials were unveiled by Archbishop Avcrill. One of these was 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. A Processional Cross, presented by the vicar's warden, Mr. H. V. Hampton, and Mrs. Hampton, was also dedicated by the archbishop. The church was well filled and in the course of his address the archbishop referred to the appropriateness of the Coronation taking place during the great festival of the Ascension, The Rev. D. C. Bates acted as chaplain, and the vicar, the Rev. W. H. Hattray, took the reading of the Coronation prayers. Archbishop Averill said that each of the former vicars whose memory was perpetuated in the memorials had been trusted servants, each serving his Master and his Master's people. They were also unveiling, a memorial to two respected supporters of the church. All these were worthy of the memorials which had been erected in their honour for they had used what God had given them for the benefit of others.