Waipukurau.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume III, Issue 7, 1 January 1913, Page 110

Waipukurau.

Vicar: Rev. F. W.Martin. Curate: Rev. H. Collier. The annual tea and prize-giving social in connection with S. Mary's Sunday school was held on Friday evening last. There was a fair attendance, and a good programme was submitted. The prizes were presented by Mr. Saunders, in the unavoidable absence of Mrs. Martin. Thanks are due to the teachers for their services during the year, and to all those who made the social such a success. We regret that Mrs. Martin is an inmate of the local hospital, and all hope to soon see her about again. Quite a number of S. Mary's parishioners journeyed out to Orua Wharo on Wednesday last to attend the garden fete, and all returned home having thoroughly enjoyed the outing.

Our annual garden fete is to take place on the 22nd January, and arrangements are well in band. Tne schedules are now ready, and will be posted in the course of a day or two. TAKAPAU. The services here are better attended now that the roads have improved. It was quite a treat one day lately when Church assembled to feel and see the change a good big scrubbing had made in the place. The Vicar was about to thank the working bee, when he found that the bee consisted of one young ladyMiss Iris Bartram. Her work and thought is most thankfully recorded. JVliss M. Duniop's wedding is to take place about the middle of December, about which more next issue. Very few have yet paid their 1912-13 subscriptions for the "Church Gazette," which is posted to them each month. Mr. D. Trent has again settled in Tologa Bay, following his business as accountant. He is also studying quietly. The Vicar has asked him to. assist in the various works of the Parish, and he will be duly licensed as a lay reader when the Bishop comes round about the middle of February. The Vicar will thus be enabled to visit more frequently ,Tuarua, Pouawa, Glenroy, Turehau, etc., having Mr. Trent to assist Dr. Weeks and Mr. Date.