CANTER WITHOUT CANT

NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 6

CANTER WITHOUT CANT

TT has been said of Mosgiel that it ••• consists of a woollen mill and a cluster of churches; but from' this it is not to be gathered' that sthere is any .narrowness about the people who live m the place. lln fact, they take a broad view of life, and this is particularly the case with the Rev. Alfred Laurie Canter, who looks after the spiritual welfare 'of the Anglicans m and about the settlement. -With him Christianity is not Churchianity, and he does not wear the mask of gloom that is affected by some sky pilots. . . . He'argues that a man can go to a race meeting and still be a good Christian, and he misses very few meeting^, at Wingatui.

BUSY MAYOR GREENSLADE JOHN WEBBER GREENSLADE has I to "move quickly," fo^r m addition to being heswi of a busy firm, he is' Mayor of Grejooouth, chairman of the Grey Electric Power Board, iciiairman of the .Advisory; Board, of the Plunket Society's Grey branch, an d > a member, of the Greymouth Harbor Board. T h e re cent earthquake which struck the West Coast left a trail of damage m its wake, which gave Greenslade's superfluous energy a chance. As chairman of the Grey District Relief Committee, he has been a tower of strength, and "Well done" is: being said of him and his committee, who faced the ordeal of dispensing relief to several hundred needy residents m the area under their control. . ;: •