NAPIER: S. Augustine's.

Waiapu Church Times, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 November 1907, Page 7

NAPIER: S. Augustine's.

Vicar : Rev. Canon Tuke. Vicar's Warden— Mr R. Thorp. People's Warden— Mr W. Scutt. . Vestrymen— Messrs J. P. Williamson, E. Berill, H. Hare, J. Griffin, T. Faulknnr, 0. Saunders, H. White, J. Langley, A.. Rood, A. G. Pallot. . Synodsmen — Messrs C. Saunders and J. P. Williamson. Lay Readers— Messrs C. Saunders, and A. G. Pallot. Organist and Choirmaster. — Mr H. L. Harston. Superintendents Sunday SchoolsAfternoon : Mr- T. Lawlor PAROCHIAL ORGANISATIONS. Sunday Services— B a.m. Holy Coramunioni excepting on the 3rd Sunday, at 12 noon. Matins, 11 a.in. Evensong, 7 p.m. All seats free Sunday School— lo a.m. and 2.30 p.m. Church Lads' Brigade— 2 p.m., Sunday Bible Class ; Weekly Meeting on Mondays7.l p.m. Vestry Meeting— First Wednesd ay in each month. Girls' Friendly Society— On 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7 p.m. S. Barnabas Association — Fortnightly, on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Women's Guild -Weekly, on Fridays at 2.30 p.m. Teachers' Meetings — Monthly, on 2nd Tuesday at 7.15 p.m. Bible Classes and Confirmations as notified by the Vicar. Choir Practice— Weekly, on Fridays at 7.30 p.m A child's purse found on the path near the church is still unclaimed and can be had at the Vicarage. Any subscribers to our church paper who have not yet paid, are reqitested to send the subscription (2s. including the " Dawn of Bay") to the Vicarage. The Jubilee Thank Offering is being collected throughout the diocese. Every parish has been supplied with collecting cards, and leaflets explaining the object. We hope that the offering from our diocese may be a worthy one, and that in our own parish a praiseworthy effort may be made. All cards should be sent into the Vicar by the 15th November. The Sunday School has decided to support a New Guinea boy whose name and photograph are anxiously looked forward to by the children. A yearly letter is also promised from their godson. The cost -of supporting him at the Mission is five pounds a year. The rose and early summer flower show will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, the 6th and 7th November. We hope that many of our Sunday School children will be able to compete in the buttonhole, bouquet, and cut flowers competitions, which will bo open to the school, and that many of our parishioners will also enter i or., ...the.- different classes, Vegetables will also- be ex-

.hibited. The entrance fee for competitions will be sixpence. The following is a list of the competition classes : — . Roses i: 12 any variety, 6 do. any variety, <6 do. buttonholes. Sweetpeas :<y varieties. Pansies : 12 distinct, 6 distinct. Pelargonium : 6 varieties. 6 Buttonholes, & Ladies' Sprays, Shower Bouquet (bridal), Shower Bouquet (any color), Basket of Flowers, Tables Decorated. Vegetables : Best Dish. Potatoes, best collection -of any. other © kinds. Ohilddren's Competition— Roses :> ,6> distinct. Pansies : 6 distinct. . Buttonholes : <5 Basket Flowers. St. Augustine's Sun' day School — Bouquet of Flowers, 6 Buttonholes, Basket of Flowers. The Sunday School examinations will be held on November 23rd and 30th in our schoolroom. Forty marks out of 100 will obtain a certificate and 60 marks a prize. To further encourage the scholars- the Sunday School will provide another prize for any who obtain a Diocesan prize. Parents will no doubt encourage their children to enter for the examinations. Baptisms— Hinemoa 1 Florence May Shews, Edmund Dolfoel Edmundson. Burials — Henry Gardiner Jeffreys, 10 years ; Adam Cro-ve, 74 years ; Edmund Parry Asher Platford, 54 years.