Ormondville.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XI, Issue 12, 1 June 1921, Page 283

Ormondville.

Vicar: Rev. F. W. Whibley. Our -harvest thanksgiving services were rather late, the . Vicar having been on sick leave at Rotorua. On his return one was held at Ormoridville on April 17th and another at Mako.tuku on April 24th. The gifts of produce at both churches were given to St. Mary's Home. At Ofmondville, Mr Dragger, having no vegetables, good enough to send, gave quarter of a sheep. His gift was much appreciated at the Home, and 2 pigs and a lamb were also given from Makotuku m addition to splendid gifts of produce. ' . - , On Whit Sunday, at the Church of Epiphany, a brass tablet was de/'dieated to the memory of an Ormondville soldier, James Henry. » Leslie Allen, who died m Featherston Camp during the epidemic. The Vicar read the impressive commemoration service authorised for the Diocese of Waiapu.

At the Whit Sunday service m Whetukura an altar that had been used during the war m Church Army huts, both m France and Flanders, was re-dedicated to the service of the Church m New Zealand and will be placed m the church shortly to be built m Whetukura. In the meantime the Education Board has granted us a room for church services not required- for school purposes. We are proud to possess this connecting link with the (Great War, and to have an altar at which hundreds of our brave defenders must have knelt to receive their last Communion on earth as they went out ; to do their duty.