NEW NELSON CATHEDRAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 2

NEW NELSON CATHEDRAL

DEDICATION CEREMONY MANY SERVICES ARRANGED Nelson’s -iaw Anglican Cathedral will be dedicated to-day,, and a programme of observances in connection with its dedication viU continue untill bundaj, December 11. The cathedral has hem dosed this .reek to enable the interior to be put in nder'for the dochcatiou. The dedication ceremony will be taken, hy the Primate, Archbishop AveriU. the lessons will be read , by the Governor(lencral, Lord ’Bledisloe and the sermon preached bv the Bishop of Nelson, Bishop Sadlien. Sunday s preachers will bo Archbishop Averdl in the morning. Bishop Bennett. oi Aoteaio,i in tho rftcrnoon, and Bishop WestWa'tson, Bishop of Chiistchureh, m the evening. , , During next week there will ho a Mothers’ Vnion Day. Addresses are to be given hy ArdibislKip AvmrLU aiul Mrs. West-Watson. Ibe Bishop of Unlstchurch will ccudnct a Quiet Day a Bishopdale Chapel.:.- On Tuesday, evening a civic service will be held in the cathedral, .he preacher being Archbishop Julius. Invitations to this service have been sent to all those engage in the civic and social service of the community. . ... , On 'Wednesday evening there wilt be

On-'Wednesday’evening . a musical iestival, tho cathedral choir and Harmonic Ssocibty combining to give Mendelssohn’s ‘Hymn of Praise. A day of intercession and thanksgiving m connection with the missions of the Church will be observed on .Thursday, and tho ceremonies will he brought to u close on Sunday, December 11. The first service in the cathedral after the dedication will be the Toe II birthday festival on Saturday evening. This will be attended by the Governor-Gen-enii, who nas consented to take the “Ceremony of eight,” which is the central part of the service. On this late the Prince of Wales will light the lamp of the Nelson branch at a festival to be held at the Town Hall, Birmingham. This lamp is to bo dedicated to tho memory of tho late Major dames Bmilker, of the New Zealand Expeditionnn Force, and formerly of Nelson. The granting of a lamp is the symbol of the promotion of a unit ot Toe If from the status of a group to that of a branch, a promotion conferred only ivhen a unit has proved that it is finnlv establisned and is really performing the service to the community that i* expected of it. The lamp of each branch is dedicated to a soldier who fell in the Great War and who lived in the district. It is the heritage of nuiidreds of Toe H branches throughout the world to carry on the good work that those men would have done had they returned