DISTRICT NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 582, 9 November 1920, Page 4

DISTRICT NEWS.

| IYIAUKU. J ST. BRIDES CHURCH. The annual meeting of St. Bride's (Anglican) Church was held on Thursday evening last, the vicar, the Rev. J. Fussell, presiding. There was a lair attendance of parishioners. The treasurer, Mr. A. E. Wright, presented the balance-sheet, which was adaopted. The following officers were elected: Vicar's church-warden, Mr. T. B. Bailey; people's church-warden, Mr. E. Rowe; vestry, Mrs. Wright and Messrs. Cutfield, Cornthwaite, Crispe, 3. Roue, J. F. Davies and U. Davies; treasurer, Mr. A. E. Wright. Mr. S. E. Pilgrim, the outgoing vicar's warden, who had been for more : than 40 years an office-bearer of St. I Bride's Church, asked to be excused j from giving further service. ! The question of a separation from I Waiuku, and the creation of Maukii Ihi to a separate parochial district, ' which has been in the air some time, ! was discussed at some length, and i the incoming vestry were instructed ito further deal with it. Unfortun- | ately, at the present time the stand- , ing committee of the diocese is not I ahlc either to provide a clergyman ■ or lo afford the necessary financial i rssistanee to enable the new district ■ lo liiul its feel, so the connexion with . Waiuku, which has existed for the ! Inst sixty years, will perforce have to , be continued for some time longer. A ! k Iter from the Waiuku vestry re- | garding Mauku's contribution lo the i common fund of the parish, which I tin. meeting considered co be couched j in unnecessarily offensive terms, was I referred lo the vestry to deal ,vith.