Ormondville.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 February 1911, Page 14

Ormondville.

Vicar: Mev. AT. CockeriM. B.A. The Christmas and New Year's holidays have been marked by specially fine weather, and consequently picnics and excursions by road and rail have been very much m evidence. It is pleasant to have noticed no diminished congregations at the Sunday services. A very important and forward step has been taken by the vestry m. the purchase, for £120, of three acres of land immediately m front of the church at Ormondyille. The immediate purpose this will serve is to provide for a long-felt want, namely, paddock accommodation for the clergyman's horse. The money is borrowed from the Whetakura Church Building Fund and is re-, payable m two years. The vestry would have much liked to have bought the other acre, unfenced, which is on the frontage facing the church. The general intention is that the four acres shall form the site, at some future day, for the vicarage. The property is very compact and its position adjoining the church is unique. Who would like their name on a subscription list to buy this other acre outright before anyone else comes m between the church and the three acre paddock ? The general parish Fete has not been this year the great financial success it was thought it would be, considering the ideal conditions of the weather on the day it was held. Still, £32 is a sum very fair considering the other occasions on which the church has asked lately for support for various objects. The Ormondville Sunday School again probably heads the list of the Sunday Schools of the diocese m the proportion of prizes gained by its pupils at the recent examination. Gut of nine pupils who entered for the examination seven obtained a pass m the Ist class m ea.ch of the three subjects, thus be-

coming entitled, m addition, to a prize. One of these, Isabella Gilmore, gained a Bishop's prize, one of the six given by the Bishop to the first, and second m the diocese m each subject. Three teachers entered this year for the examination. We congratulate one of them, Miss Edith Webb, on obtaining the prize given by the Bishop, while Miss Florne Brabazon was close behind.