MEMORIAL WINDOW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22063, 20 September 1933, Page 5

MEMORIAL WINDOW

WORK OF DUNEDIN FIRM DEDICATION IN AUCKLAND - ■ a The fact that church and other organisations in the north and elsewhere are becoming increasingly aware of the existence in Dunedin of a manufacturing concern which can undertake the creation of stained-glass windows which, in design, materials, and workmanship, compare favourably with the imported article, is exemplified by the numbers of orders which have been recently received by Eraser’s Art Glass Works, Rattray street. Some time ago thig_ firm manufactured a triple memorial window

to Edna O. Rhodes, for installation at Auckland, and several further orders for windows of a secred or symbolical character have been received, including one for a memorial window which will be installed in a Wesleyan church in Auckland to the memory of the Rev. George Bond. This window, which is now completed and will be shipped north to-day, is a graceful and artistic creation of the single-panel type, the subject being modelled on William Holman Hunt’s well-known “ The Light of the World.” One of the mbat impressive symbolical works of the last century, this subject has been treated with skill and taste, and the completed window should do much to strengthen still further this firm’s just claims to recognition in the sphere of art window manufacture. The central figure of the Saviour is surmounted by a canopy of orthodox design and flanked by shafting, the_ whole being set on a background of richly treated foliage, the form and colouring of the window as a whole being strikingly artistic. The memorial will be dedicated in Auckland on Sunday.

Archdeacon of Christchurch and Vicar of Merivale, who has accepted the cure of the Cathedral Parish of Nelson, He was born in Dunedin in 1878 and is the youngest son of the late Mr D Arcy Haggitt. .Educated at the Otago Boys’ High School and the Otago University, he gained the degree of Master of Arts in 1902, with second-class honours in Mental Science. At Selwyn College he passed the necessary theological grades and in 1903 was ordained.