Gisborne.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 3, 1 September 1922, Page 403

Gisborne.

Vicar: Rev. Canon H. Packe, M.A. Assistant Priest: Rev. T. A. Cato.

The Confirmation Talks have begun and we hope to have a good many candidates to present to the Bishop for the holy rite m November.. At the Parish Church the classes for boys and men is at 10 a jn. Sundays, for women and girls 7.30 p.m..Tuesdays. Classes will be arranged for the three suburban churches. Will intending candidates please apply at once at either of these classes? -We hope before .long' to have -ay..fullyequipped 'kindergarten; Sunday Schoftlr The material is ordered and we ask for liberal donations to. this .worthy object. Also for more teachers. We have been granted the use free of the City Hall for the Sunday School, so the middle school can be comfortably accommodated there, and the kindergarten will have the use of the' Sunday School. The Girls '' Club held a most successful Shop Day , lately and netted £19 towards the Club Room Fund. The Rev. E. T. Cox' M.A., kindly addressed the Girls' Club " dhe night on "The Girl Who Pound* tne Bluebird," and dealt a" good deal with the story of Helen Keller 's life. It was a most enjoyable and instructive^ address. Community -singing was"al§dj indulged m and a happy time was 1 spent there. The Vicar also addfessed the Girls' Club one evening ■ ; "'pti ' 'Tennyson and His Works, " particularly, "The Holy Grail," and drew many helpful lessons from- it.-

Another .service of , admission "for members of .the ■•Girls' Club has been held m the church, when 16 girls were admitted, several of these girls being of other denominations. Alb.' impressive sermon was. given to the members by the Vicar which they will long remember. Any girl from '16 years upwards may join the Club, as long as she faithfully keeps the rule of daily prayer for one another, and of regular Communion m her owfl church.