BISHOP AVERILL'S VISIT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12584, 14 October 1911, Page 5

BISHOP AVERILL'S VISIT.

AN EXTENSIVE TOUR

Amongst the passengers from Napier by the .s.s. Victoria this morning was the Right Rev. Dr. Averill, Bishop ol Waiapu. His Lordship purposes spending some time m this end of his diocese. ,and is undertaking an arduous tour of the district. Bishop Averill leaves town by this afternoon's train for Puha, and stays the night with Mr Palmer. To-morrow he conducts three services m that district, finishing up at Te Karaka m the evening. His Lordship will visit aU round that district, and proceeds up to^ the railway works and on to Motu. He will have three services m the Motu district to-morrow week. The following week he returns to Gisborne, and has services all day on the 29th. During that week he will have various meetings at Gisborne, the programme (being as follows : 26th, Girls' Friendly Society, 7.30 p.m. ; 27th, Mangapapa, social gathering ; 28th, motor drive m the country; 29th, 7.30 a.m., Holy Communion ; 8.30 a.m., Communion j breakfast for men only ; preaches at 11 a.m. ; 2.30 p.m., service at Mangapapa; ' 7 p.m., mission service, probably at the j Garrison Hall, as on the previous occa- ' sion ; 30th, meeting at Kaiti at 8 p.m. ; 31st, Mothers' Union meeting at 2.30 p.m., and parishioners' meeting about central church extension at 8 p.m. ; November Ist (All Saints' Day), Communion service at 7.30 a.m. Next day his Lordship proceeds to Muriwai, and has a service there : Friday, a service at Te Arai, and on Sundafy, November 5, at 'Waerenga-a-hika m the morning. Te Arai m the afternoon, and Patutahi at night. On Monday, 6th November, he he leaves for Morere, Nuhaka and Mahia, and goes on to Wairoa. At the latter place he hopes to re-open the church which has been removed from the old site to another situation, owing to the accommodation being inadequate the church and schoolroom having been put together temporarily until such time as the proposed new church is erected. The church at Wairoa will be re-opened on November 12, when a Maori confirmation service will also be held. During that week the Bishop hopes to be able to visit tlie whole of the Wairoa dis L trict. On November 19 he conducts a confirmation service at Frasertown, and preaches again at Wairoa m the evening. He goes on to Mohaka and back to Napier by coach. Immediately upon completion of this tbur> his Lordship leaves for Rotorua, Taupo district, Whakatane, Te Puke, and Tauranga. He returns to Auckland on December 13, and comes on to Gisborne, where a Maori ordination will take place on December 17. The -Bishop has' to leave for Napier the following Sunday night, as he has an ordination service at Hastings on the 21st.

This will be his Lordship's first visit to the' Motu district. He had intended to ride through from Opotiki some time ago, but he was stuck up by heavy weather, and had to return. He states he is looking forward ,to getting up to Motu, as that is the only new ground he has to cover. From Wairoa Bishop Averill hopes to visit Lake Waikaremoana, as he has never been there before.

His Lordship informed a reporter that the new church at Te Arai would not be formally opened until after his return from England, which he purposes visiting, from February to August of next year. Referring to church matters generally, Bishop Averill said there was a good deal of church building contemplated. They were about to build a church at Hastings. Recently he had opened two churches m the diocese, one at Mamaku, 16 miles from Rotorua, and one at Matamau, m Hawke's Bay. The new Holy Trinity Church, which was to be started soon, would be a more ■worthy church for Gisborne, whilst the new church at Wairoa would alao be a fine building.