Noel Does Well

NZ Truth, Issue 1207, 17 January 1929, Page 4

Noel Does Well

IN St. George's Church, Thames, the shades' of night are falling fast

despite Sidey time. . . The. organist has coaxed a tuneful voluntary out of his instrument. . . The congregation rises. . . • And Vicar .Noel Robertshawe with stately tread and measure proceeds to say his mellifluous piece.

There is no niineing posturing curate about the Rev. Noel. He is a graduate of the stern school of reality which produces the warp and 'woof of manly bearing and outlook. Tea swilling and innocuous tittle tattle may be all right m their waj r , but when you've put m a term as a college chaplain and have waded through a purple patch of life as a padre "where poppies grow"

. . . Well! . '. . . Life's problems, an you please, can -scarce be solved at afternoon tea sessions!

He envisions citizenship as something more than caring for a faithful flock. So like, the Pimpernel you'll find .him here, there and everywhere. Child Welfare Officer; a Rotarian; a .catechiser of politicians; and a fine figure m flannels. He is to Main Street a busy, bustling citizen m a coupe rather than a pulchritudinous parson. „ few moons hence will see him holiday bound for a war-free Europe with only her scars to remind him of the sore travail he once witnessed.