THE NEW VESTRY.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 25, Issue 10, 1 October 1935, Page 4

THE NEW VESTRY.

News item ("News From Nowhere"): — "At the annual meeting of the parish of Mostlikely, the following were re-appointed church officers for the current year It is an indication of the confidence placed m them by the electors that these men have served on the Vestry without a break for the last 50 years." So we are the lads of th© vestry, merry and gay are we. From the very first start, of the vestry a part, and this is our Jubilee. That's so! This is our Jubilee. The Vicar appointed his Warden: Mr. Giffer, he said, it must be. It don't make no differ, says Grandaddy Giffer, for I am a hundred and three, my boy, yes, I am a hundred and three. The people all voted together— their warden was. plain for to see — our Benjamin Blower> he's older than Noah, his beard flows down to his knee, snow-white, and flows right down to his knee. The minutes are read by Macandrew, a Protestant, born at Dundee. "Ah ken what Ah'm saying, Ah ken what Ah'm daeing." Ah was f owerty years at sea, ma. mon, fowerty years at sea." The next is a relative youngster, son of old Giffer is he; fifty years m the choir, and pitches no higher than the octave below middle C, a drone, an octave below middle C.

There's Thomas and Henry and Alfred, three brothers as like as can be. They're never been farther, than — London? — or rather, they're never been over the sea— that's safe — they've never been over the sea. So these are boys of the VestryT Of Vicars they've known twenty-three. Of progress they know not, to movements they glow not, their Church is as safe as can be. Alas! their Church is as dead as can' "oe.— Anon. (We are assured that m the above skit there is no reference intended to any particular vestry or individual.— Ed.)