Waipukurau.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume V, Issue 8, 1 February 1915, Page 98

Waipukurau.

Vicar; Rev. A. W. C. Stace. The services on Christmas Day were well attended and the Church was tastefully decorated by members of the sanctuary guild and others, though, owing to the very dry weather, flowers have been .scarce this year. There were three Celebrations of Hoty Communion, at 8 a.m. and II a.m., at S. Mary's, and a Celebration at io a.m. at the District Hospital. In all sixty communicants participated. On Monday, 28th, December, a very pretty wedding took place at the Church, the happy couple being Mr J. G-. Clarkson, local dentist, and

Miss S. J. Rodgers, who for some yeariS past has occupied the position of a nurse at the Hospital. Both are well known and esteemed. The service, which was semi-choral, was conducted by the Vicar, and Miss L. iGrosvenor presided at the organ. Mr and Mrs Clarkson have the good wfishes of their many friends. The following Church statistics for the half-year ending December 3ist, are of interest :— Baptisms, 22 ; Confirmations, 23 ; Marriages, 3 ; Burials, 8. !Por the same period m the previous s^ear the figures were : — Baptisms, 4 : Confirmations, nil ; Marriages, nil ; Burials, 2. The Bishop's appeal to have the Church bell tolled at noon, each day, as a call to prayer, is much approved m this parish.