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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1917, Page 7

The Editor of the Church Envoy, Dunedin, has succeeded m a wonderful way m inducing the Parochial correspondents of the paper to cut but •superfluous verbiage and gush from their -parochial reports. Considering the great difficulties under which we labour., for lack of space we wish -we had the same persuasive power with some of our parochial reporters— in our little eight paged Gazette we cannot possibly spare room for effusive compliments to the kind hosts and hostesses of the clergy when they m ako t h eir parochial visits. We have no doubt all the ladies at parochial concerts, sing divinely, and the .matrons make delicious coffee and cakes and so on, but we really have no room to chronicle these facts— nor even the vagaries of the weather— in the Church •Gazette/- We all know the. weather is sometimes unkind and the roads muddy, etc., etc.. but if every vicar

sehVuTsa-wSathefc'ari^ pbrt every month . iljhra.e!i..v.^izßs!_pig' would not hold it all; : Verbum Sapienti satis est. ! .; v : ' :^- ;