HASTINGS VICAR APPOINTED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 81, 29 December 1937, Page 6

HASTINGS VICAR APPOINTED

Rcv. W. T. Drake oi Waipawa Accepts Living SERVICES TO DIOCESE r _ The Rev. William Tasman Drake, vicar of .St. Peter's Church, Waipawa, has been appointed vicar of St. Matthew's Church, Hastings, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Canon C. Mortimer-Jones, who has accepted the living cf St. Mary's Church, Waipukurau. Mr Drake, who is well known in the Diocese of Waiapu, having held various offices in the district, is expected to take up his new duties in the first week of March next. Mr Drake entered holy orders • in 1910 when he became curate at Dunstan. Two years later he was ordained deaeon and the following year he entered the priesthood. He beeame vicar of Maniototo in 1914 and continued there until 1918 when he accepted a curacy at Gisborne, a position he occupied for a term of three years. Mr Drake was then appointed vicar of Puketapu in 1921, but at the latter end of the next year he moved to St. Andrew's parish at Port Ahuriri, where he remained until 1927, when he retired owing to ill-nealth. Refreshed after a two-year period, Mr Drake was appointed organising secreta-y for the Diocese of Waiapu in 1929 and continued in this office until September, 1931, when he accepted the living of St. Peter's Church, Waipawa,, where he had remained ever since. '