Parish News.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVII, Issue 7, 1 January 1927, Page 13

Parish News.

(Continued).

THe following! tnoties: arrived after the/iinside sheets of the :t {* Gazette" hadi beeni printed:— . ';,.'.,' , x

Rotorn*.,

WdtMm i the i last few weeks ,\,ihefe have been* many .activities i jn;jii£ei;e!it parts : of \ ithea Rotorua -, parochial \ district', I ishowing; aiir-amqwiivOsf f t interjest mr the; wfork ,of the Church, which; is 1 all! tdithel good., .'.,".' ; Sales r of> work, organised, . by . the various,. j&liilds, etc., liare taken place and resulted m raising over £200 for Church purposes. These, include sales of i= work ;: held by Sti Luke's Ladies' Guild? Devon Street , Ladies'/, Quild, also a ;sweet ;pea and rose. show, organised^ by the JQevon Street jGujld and j other . f unctipns y besides. The visit paid f by Capjtain r Watson , w.as very< much appreciated. He. pj'eached in< St. Luke's Church on JAdyent Sunday eveningfand addressed aj large arid representative igathermg. of .parishioners on the;fpllowing r ev!3riing,in the Parish Hall :on the Duplex Envelope systeim of j Church. Finance, which quite convinced- his hearers- that the scheme was both sbundy and > Scriptural, and that . sufficient ; evidence had been put forward , ; to prove ;to the meeting .that- it ought to be ptttrinto operation as- the <. b;asis of : our Church work— which' needs to berkept on ;the high level ; of service of r which our thuankoJEeri^gs and gifts are one of its equivalents.; ; At; very ;( large influx of .visitors i, is expected this' (Christmas season. Every available space has been booked,, ancl a lai^ge.p*ea /set apart by, the Borough Council, rfpr a camping ground provided iwithSQeeessary conyenienees,:: It is at such times that our Church buildings are ■; so inadequate. : We- nped a Church twice | the size, but for oni} ordinary requirements the present; building is ..sufiSpienty especially singe the Church Hail at. the Whakk end of the town was built capable of holding 100 persons. At the same time we ought to face the enlargement of St; Luke's Church m the near future, but as it will ; be ttiaiply for the accommodation of vfisiiting Cliifch people from all over the 1 Dominiony we ought to be able to coUnt on assistance f rorii outside, as witti, 7 our present heavy expiSntdittire, to meet the spiritual needs of sol widely scattered a distric^' it woul4,.not be possible to finance such . an^undertaking without outside help. The short visit to be paid.tio Rotorua m February by the Duke and Duche&rof York, is ; sure to attract * large number of people to; the place. We ate looking; ; f6rwiir«4 alsfl .with in-terest-to the ywit- dE the 5 Biihop o£

London m March, whoas? expected to include Rotorua m his programme. As the Vicar "will be away during January and will have no opportunity of sending notes for the February issue he wishes to add a few later notes to those m another column. Sister Elsie Smith (Abbotsford Home), after weeks of attendance on sick children is '"now herself a victim of Germane measles and up to date four more children have contracted the disease, making 21. This is particularly unfortunate as it will keep the matron from going for her wellearned holiday for at least three weeks. Assistance at the Home which has long been awaited has at last arrived m the person of Miss l^er, and under the circumstances is specially welcome. Nurse Moore has also come down from Napier for a short time until the p&tients recover. In. spite of the wet weather and the absence of a great many parishioners on holiday the number of communicants this Christmas was larger than ever before, especially at the 7 a.m. , Eucharist at St. Peter 's. The evening congregation also at Tikokino on Sunday was splendid though the evening was very wet.:! The Holy " Communion was celebrated at Abbotsford Home on St. John's Day for the staff and children who are m isolation and unable to attend the parish church. The parish Lizzie, which had become very shabby and whose hood has for some time had a most dilapidated appearance, has been spruced up for Christmas. The Vicar has given it a coafc of Ripolin enamel and a new hood has been obtained which Mr James Riddles has kindly fitted, so that Lizzie looks respectable once more. The whole of the frontage of the two schoolrooms has been concreted. Mr Jamieson, who was visiting Waipawa, kindly took charge of the organ at the 11 o'clock celebration on Christmas Day. The Siinday fechool held its annual prize-giving on December 19th. The elder children . received the best reward, viz., the thanks p£ Canon Feilden Taylor for their foregoing of their prizes m order that the money might be given for poor children m Wellington. Mrs H. WV White kindly presented each of the children m the kindergarten with a gift. Mrs W. Clark, of Argyll, b,as given £1 to buy three more kindergarten chairs, making; 27, but we are still a few short. Mrs E. IGttow, ojF Tamumu, has kindly, provided heavy red linen to. cover 'the altar and altar panels of St. Alban's Qhurch, T&mimu, and

also for a dorsal. It is hopeless trying to keep out moths from silk and wooliv Mrs W. Wood has kindly offered to do the embroidery. The collection at the Presbyterian Sunday School on the last Sunday m the year has been allotted to Abbotsford Home. Many thanks for the gift and; the kindly thought which promptedit; " . An anonymous donor has sent us a "birthday chair, for the kindergarten. We are deeply grateful.