ST. MATTHEW’S CHURCH.

Wairarapa Age, 8 April 1929, Page 5

ST. MATTHEW’S CHURCH.

BISHOP SPROTT CONSECRATES ADDITIONS. ST. GEORGE’S MEMORIAL CHAPEL. At a special service held in (St. Matthew’s Church last evening, the additions to ihe edifice lately completed, including the war memorial chapel which has been named St. George’is Chapel, were consecrated by His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington, the Right Reverend Dr. T. H. Sprott. The church was well filled and the service, which was very beautiful, opened with a procession. The Choir gave an admirable rendering of the anthem “Seek Ye The Lord,” Mr H. F. Green taking the solo part. The sermon was preached by the Bishop, and the Bev. E. Whitby James read the Lessons. After the Third Collect, the Bishops, attended by the churchwardens, Dt. Archer Hosking and Mr. L. B. Maunsell, and. the clergy, the Rev. W. Bullock (Vicar) and. the Rev. E. Whitby James, proceeded to the chapel, which he consecrated and dedicated to St. George as a memo-rial to the soldiers who fell in the Great War. The additions to the chancel, Teredos and; altar were in turn duly consecrated. Injiis sermon, the Bishop congratulated*' the parishioners on the advance made and prophesied that in time, with their help, St. Matthew’s Church would be one of the most beautiful, not only in the diocese, but in the country.