WAIMATE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20585, 26 November 1936, Page 3

WAIMATE

NOTABLE VISITOR COMMISSIONER LANGDON A notable visitor to Waimate yesterday was International Commissioner G. Langdon, of the Salvation Army, who for the last six years has been men’s social secretary for Great Britain and Ireland. Commissioner Langdon was accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Adjutant G. Schade, Commissioner F. Adams, Commanding Officer of the Salvation Army of New Zealand, Lieut.-Colonel A. Scotney, and Brigadiers Cotterill and Fenwick.

The visitors were entertained at afternoon tea by the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr and Mrs Geo. Dash).

In extending a welcome to Commissioner Langdon, Mr Dash said that Waimate was honoured to entertain an International Commissioner of the Salvation Army, as it esteemed those prominent in any religious organisation whose object was the uplift of mankind.

Commissioner Langdon expressed appreciation of the welcome and reception tended to him, and said that as he journeyed through New Zealand he had been charmed with the natural beauty of the countryside and the magnificent scenery. He proceeded to give an outline of the work on which he was engaged in England. There he was in charge of 109 social institutions of different sorts, which housed 10,000 men every night, and the expense of maintaining them ran Into hundreds of thousands of pounds. The depression had been a period of great worry, but the Army had won through to continue its great work of giving a helping hand to the unfortunate and helping them back on to their feet morally and financially. Capt. Stone, of the Waimate Corps, thanked the Mayor and Mayoress for their hospitality.

REBEKAH LODGE Te Waimate Rebekah Lodge held its fortnightly meeting in the Orange Hall, when Sis. E. S. Peck presided over a good attendance of members. One candidate was initiated. Sis. H. Anderson brought fraternal greetings from Naomi Lodge. Christchurch. PERSONAL The Waimate High School Board's invitation to be the principal speaker at the school prize giving function has been accepted by its first choice, Professor F. S. Hunter, lecturer in Hebrew at Otago University. He will be the guest of the rector (Mr M. Leadbetter) during his stay in Waimate. Bishop Brodie will be in Waimate over the week-end, and will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation in St. Patrick’s Church at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Mr S. Malthus is at present in Dunedin, where, with Mr J. A. Lash, he is representing the local Masonic Lodge, Lodge St. Augustine, at the annual convocation of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Galway, was installed as Grand Master of New Zealand.

Procters, the Opticians, Christchurch, will be making their next professional visit to Waimate early in the new year, when they may be consulted on all defects of eyesight at the Royal Hotel. Appointments can now be made by ringing the Royal Hotel, ’phone 15