TE KOPUA.
The harvest thanksgiving service was held at this old mission station in the schoolroom on Sunday afternoon, March 21sd, when the room was well filled, although it happened to be the time of a native funsral near by. The school was tastefully decorated with fruits and vegetables, etc., which altogether had a very pleasing effect. The service was conducted by the Rev. H. young, whose text was, '* While the earth remaineth seed time and harvest shall not cease." Considerable interest was excited in the opening of an American organ, a fine instrument which had just been obtained in Auckland by the Rev. W. Gittos, and purchased with a fund collected at To Kopua, started at the previous harvest festival in March, 1896, assisted by friends in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington during the past twelve months. Mr Blackmail, school teacher at Otorohanga, kindly came for the purpose of opening the organ, which service he rendered very efficiently, greatly helping the choral part of tho service. Kiri Katipa had brought the organ in his waggon, free of charge, from Pirongia. The annual piuuic of the school was held a short time before, and was a pleasant gathering Both at the picnic and the service the weather was very fine,—(Own Correspondent).
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Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 113, 30 March 1897, Page 3
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210TE KOPUA. Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 113, 30 March 1897, Page 3
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