Weber.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume II, Issue 1, 1 July 1911, Page 15

Weber.

: Vicar : Rev. F. W. Whibley. Five of our Confirmation candidates from Wimbledon were confirmed at • Porongahau on May 7tbu They reeciv- ' ed their first Communion at Wimble- ; don on Sunday, June 11th. Miss Fanny [ Doria, unfortunately, was too unwell 1 to attend, but we are glad to hear she is progressing favourably.

Mr R. Brasall, of ' Wimbledon, has had a severe attack of pneumonia. He was attended to very carefully by Dr McKee, and we are able to. report a great change for the better during the last few days. Mr and Mrs Brasall are only lately married. The neighbours all round have been most thoughtful, and some of them have volunteered every' night to sit up with the patient. How beautiful is the bond of sympathy. The "Weber Church Wool Fund has reached to about 1300lbs of wool this year> and has realised £31 7s lid. There is more promised. ' Messrs Williams and Kettle have their next oddmerit sale at Danneyirke on July ll'th'.. One-third of this amount will be sent home to the Church Army m England, which is doing such a grand work among the poor and outcast there. . Lord Roberts opened a new Central Labour . Home and . Relief Works on April 6, 1911.. It cost £20,000. Those wW have helped our local fund may possibly have lifted some one of the thousands of poor iix England to a better and purer life; nay, oy t their fleece of wool have made it possible for the Church Army people to reclaim some ex-criminal or vagrant, or loafer or drunkard. There is a strong religious influence brought to bear on these castaways, and a feeling of Christian sympathy and brotherhood, is. thus set up, which should help them to feel how beautiful the religion of Jesus is, who himself "went about doing good." BAPTISMS. At Weber : Zbe Ellen Harris. At Kaitoa, Awariki: Barbara Bisdee Stuckey . ; ; • ; MARRIAGES. At Weber: John Robert Smith to Hannah Elizabeth Watts. ; .. '