Taradale Branch.

Waiapu Church Gazette, 1 October 1910, Page 3

Taradale Branch.

The Vicar asked Key. E. G. Coates, Diocesan Secretary, to come out to Taradale, and he found a very small but courageous and attentive audience. In liis brisk way he put forward the aims of the 0.E.-M.S;, and enlightened us all, as to the power for good, such a band of men would be to a parish. Although the majority were anxious to form a branch at once, it was considered wiser that a second meeting should be held. This took place on the Monday following, when several others attended, and the branch was constituted, the Bishop himself coming out on Thursday, September Bth., when eight members were duly admitted, namely : — Alfred P. Clarke and Gerard W. Davidson, priests; and Oliver McOutcheon, Hiram Harris, William Williams, Harold Kay, John Langley, and Donald Haultain, laymen. The Bishop, after presenting the badges, gav»J an address, urging all to " Go up Higher" m their 'daily lives as Christians, and to make much use of the coming Mission m that direction. Already the little band of C.E.M.S. workers, is making good headway, with Mr D. Haultain as secretary.