CLIFDEN NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 22113, 6 September 1933, Page 3

CLIFDEN NOTES

PRESENTATION. (From Our Correspondent.) On August 27, after SundaySchool at the local Presbyterian church, the superintendent, Miss F. C. Chilman, took the opportunity of expressing appreciation of the good work done by her assistant, Mrs Ballington Hill. As Mrs Hill is leaving the district, she is relinguishing her position as assistant. Miss Chilman called upon Miss Betty Rowley and Master William Baker to make a presentation of a Bible to Mrs Hill and a book each to her two children, Flower and Everand. Mrs Hill in response expressed her appreciation and thanks to the superintendent and to the pupils. Mrs Hill will be succeeded by Miss Jessie Pearce of Otahu. At the close of evening service at the local church on Sunday evening August 27, the local minister, the Rev. Mr Thomson, spoke of the good work in connection with the church done by Mrs Hill. In his address he outlined the various church activities undertaken by Mrs Hill in the Sunday school, in the church and particularly in her care of the church flower garden, and spoke of the moral and spiritual attitude Mrs Hill adopted. He wished her God’s blessing and success and happiness in her new home. Mr J. C. Gardner, of the Deacons’ Cour, expressed the congregation’s appreciation of the work done by Mrs Hill and of the great care and interest taken by her in the church garden which was an acquisition to any church. He asked Mrs Hill to accept on behalf of the congregation a tea set as a token of the esteem in which she was held. In reply Mrs Hill spoke of the pleasure she had received, during her three years’ stay in the Clifden district through her work for the church. It was a work in which she was greatly interested and was a pleasure to her. Mrs Hill thanked Mr Gardner and the congregation for the token which would remind her of her happy days in Clifden.