DIOCESAN AND GENERAL.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 26, Issue 11, 1 November 1936, Page 1

DIOCESAN AND GENERAL.

'The Rev. B. R. Brierley has accepted the Parish of Holy Trinity, Devonport, and will leave this Diocese .about March. He will be very much missed here, and will leave behind him a record of good work, both m the district of S. Andrew's and m the Hospital. Devonport is a large and important parish and will give plenty of scope for his energy. He is to be succeeded by the Rev. W. S. G. Cameron, Vicar of Porangahau. There will be no Retreat for Women this summer m Napier, but early m Lent a Retreat for Women will be held m Marton, m the' Wellington Diocese. Particulars will be published later. The usual Retreat for Clergy will be at Te Aute College, the first week m February. The Bishop has instructed the "Clergy to discourage decorations m Church for weddings. As a rule these decorations are not for the glory of God, but of someone else. In particular he forbids that vulgar abomination, the floral bell. A slipshod custom has grown up of giving out notices of all kinds m Church which haye N nothing on earth to do with the services of the Church. After all, most Churches have, and all should have, notice boards which

can be used for these outside things. This also is the Bishop's wish.