HASTINGS.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume V, Issue 6, 1 December 1914, Page 68

HASTINGS.

For this our third annual report I think we can truthfully report good solid progress along all lines. The roll shows a membership of 56 girls and 19 candidates and 10 working and 30 honorary Associates. Twenty-nine meetings of the Society have been held this year to date, i.e., to the 30th September, and there are still nine more meetings before the brea<k-up. These meetings have been divided m fotir classes : Sewing Bible Class, Addresses, At Homes and S. John Ambulance Classes. For the addresses the Society has been fortunate enough to obtain the services of some excellent speakers m Mrs Sunderland, Miss Walton, Dr. Boxer and our Vicar, Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst. The outbreak of this dreadful war and the furnishing of necessaries for our volunteers which resulted, was. met m a wholehearted manner by the girls, who provided all the towels necessary for the local troops besides paying a sum of money into the general fund for this purpose. Other sewing work was also done. The Society sustained a great loss during the year owing to the departure of Rev. N. Robertshawe for the Old Country. Mr Robertshawe was the curate here, and took a great interest m our Branch. As a slight recognition of this we presented him before leaving with a solid leather suit case. An innovation, this year was the initiation of S. John Ambulance

classes. Forty girls and Associates^ are taking courses. Doctor Boxer was originally the lecturer, but he volunteered for the war and went into camp with the Expeditionary Force. Dr. Toss will is now kindly continuing- the lectures. Dr. Boxer had spent much time and had made himself very popular with the girls, and on going into camp, Mr Brocklehurst presented him, on behalf of the girls, with a camera. Working Associates : — Mrs Hamilton, Mrs Fannin, Miss G. • Gray, Miss M. Gray, Miss Martin,. Miss Hodgson, Miss Ebbett, Miss George, Miss Harper, Miss Walton. Honorary Associates : — Mesdaitnes Brocklehurst, Dudle^r Hill, A. H. Russell, S. H. Knight, Gascoyne, H. E. Beamish, Barcroft, Watson, Martin Smith, J. Fraser (Tomoana Road), Watts, Charlton, W. Watson, G. Callender, F. Brook, ,G. Ebbett, Beilby, De . I/isle, Lewis, Ambrose Wellwood, Anderson, Stubbs, Tickett, and A. Rainbow, Misses Baird, Danvers, Gore Martin, Elsie Williams, Westmorland, and Elwin. E. MAUD CAIyIyENDER. Sec. Hastings Branch.