News and notes.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 6, 1 December 1925, Page 1

News and notes.

The Rev, W. & . G. Cameron, whose health has greatly improved, has been appointed to; the charge of Te Karaka and has already commenced his duties. The.Rev. C.G. Salt was ordained priest in Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, on November 15th. : Mr McKenna, who has been stipendiary lay reader in charge of the dis■triet of ißuatorea for some time, was ordained' deacon on the- same day. \ f/: Bp.ce;the inception of the: Napier Society Lodge in September, 1915, girls of any deiiomiria'tibn who work in town may take their lvrich and eat same in ; Ij'd^e ; ,^l]btblrb6tn> where; they can get I ti ! vas' f 6f £ tea foft>n^ pentryi ,;,

A. retreat for women will be held in Hastings at the end of January. Conductor, Rev. F : Rawle, of Prebbleton. Intending retreatants please write to Deaconess Esther . Brand, Gisborne. , We had intended including' in this issue an illustrated Christmas Supplement, containing an account of Social work in the diocese with photographs of our various Homes. Unfortunately the process block of St. Hilda's was lent some time ago to anothei* diocese and has been lost; Lohse Scholarships : have been awarded by the Christchurch Diocesan Trustees to Miss 0. M. Fitchett. (Roslyn), . Miss A. M. Y. ' Greenwood (Devonport) Miss M. L. /Roberts (Port Chalmers) and Miss V. M. Harrison (Auckland). .... The Rev. E. C. R. Beale, of Tolaga Bay, has been offered, and has ac- • eepted, the position of Priest in Charge of . St. Margaret's Church, Glasgow. He leaves New Zealand in February. Deaconess Elsie Smith will arrive in Auckland about December 21st. The date of the official opening of Abbotsford Home has not yet been fixed, but the Home will be informally opened, probably before Christmas. About 26 children are already awaiting admission, sixteen of whom are being* accommodated at St. Hilda's in the , meantime. Miss Waller and several Waipawa ladies are busy hemniing linen, making curtains, etc., and the furniture for the Home is being collected. Gifts arid contributions are still urgently required from all who haye not yet helped. All off era of gifts and r cash should be sent, to the Diocesan Secretary; but furniture , and other gifts in kind should be sent to the Home, to the care of the Vicar of Waipawa. . Clergy desiring extra copies of our January number for free distribution as samples with the object, of: getting new subscribers for .1926 are requested to- inform the editor as soon as pdssibliB t as to how. rn^ny. such copies .iihey retire.; : ; - ... -