Diocesan News.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume I, Issue 11, 1 May 1911, Page 170

Diocesan News.

Acts of the Bishop, Sentence Consecration, — Addition to Chancel, St. Stephen's Church, Opotiki. Licenses to Cure of Souls. — William John Simkin, Priest, L. Th. of Durham, to Wairoa; also license as Surrogate for issue Marriage Licenses. Permission to Officiate. — Theodore Albert Meyer, Priest. Ordinations. — Deacons m Napier Cathedral on Sunday, 23rd April, 1911, Percy Coleman Davis, Charles Edmond Nicholas, Cecil Lancelot Wilson, L. Th, of Durham. License Assistant Curate. — Percy Coleman Davis, District of Eotorua; Charles Edmond Nicholas, Parish of Dannevirke ; Cecil Lancelot Wilson, District of St. Augustine's, Napier. Faculty. — Cathedral Parish, Napier, to erect brass Tablet m Napier Cathedral, with following inscription : — "In loving memory of our Brother John Chaddesley Westall, who was for seven years Church Advocate of the Diocese of Waiapu. Born London 1859, died Wellington 1909. ' Until the Day break.' Canticles 11., 17. License Lay Readers. — Eruera Moeke, Eahu Pakatai, Hakopa Haiwera, Hikurangi ; Waiheke Puha, Ereatara Harewini, Henare Katae, Haeta Tautuhi, Te Kawa Kawa; Irimana te Kawa, Eru Kawhena, Paratene Ngata, Tipene Wenerei, Waiapu ; Hare Tautapu, Peta Pokini, Taare Winiata, Tokomaru; Keepa Tuanehu, Pihi Operewhaanga, Nukutaurua ; Hinia Eae, Hamiora Taitua, Wiremu Paora, Tipene Tukiterangi, Duncan Sterling, Te Kaha ; John Aleander McLean, George Clark, Waipawa Parish.

A form of service authorised by the bishop for use m country districts has been printed by Messrs Ball and Co., Napier, the price being 4d a copy, or 30s pcr 1 100. It is practically a shortened form of morning and evening prayer, with numbered pages, followed by a selection of eight Psalms, and thir-ty-three well-known hymns. It is very well printed m large type, and should prove very useful to the Clergy and Lay Readers m country districts. The Rev. W. J. Simkin, who has been working m a large par-

ish m Stafford, England, arrived m Napier shortly before Easter, and went on by the Tangaroa to Wairoa. Mr Simkin was duly instituted as Vicar of the parish on the evening of Easter Day by Archdeacon Williams. The Bishop of Lichfield, m a letter to the Bishop, says, "I desire to commend the Rev. W. J. Simkin very heartily to you as a sincere and conscientious servant of Christ, and one whose assistance m the work of your diocese you may welcome. It will be pleasant to bear m mind the double link that will now exist between your distant diocese and Stafford, strengthening the bond which before united New Zealand with the diocese of Lichfield." The parish of Wairoa requires at once the work of two clergymen, and it is the Bishop's intention to have two unmarried men working together there if the financial arrangements can be made. Miss Griffen has returned from her visit to India, and resumed her work at the Mission House, Whakare ware wa . The Bishop desires to acknowledge the following sums towards the rebuilding of Hukarere girls' school : Anonymous (St. Michael's Christchurch) ss, St. Michael's Christchurch Day School children (Lenten self-denial offering), 16s, Nuhaka Maoris per Rev. W. P. Rangihuna 26s (additional offering).